A newly identified virus–cell hybrid structure allows viruses to spread faster and more aggressively by hitching a ride on ...

Far beneath Earth’s surface, two enormous structures lie hidden at the edge of the planet’s molten core. These formations, each thousands of kilometers wide, aren’t just geological oddities—they might ...

Scientists say they've found an unexpected, 12.4-mile-thick layer of rock lurking below Bermuda's oceanic crust.

As people around the world marveled in July at the most detailed pictures of the cosmos snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope, biologists got their first glimpses of a different set of images — ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

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MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Chemists have found a new way to determine 3D genome structures, using generative AI, that can predict thousands of genome structures in minutes, making it much speedier than existing methods for ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories about Earth's mantle. Advanced seismic imaging reveals these anomalies, which ...

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