Dipteryx oleifera trees not only survive lightning strikes, they grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

James Webb Space Telescope captured the light of a dying star, supernova GRB 250314A, from when the universe was only 730 ...

Researchers have launched a database highlighting microbes that support human health and ecosystem resilience.

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

Researchers created a new kind of cancer drug that can grab a mutant protein while also carrying a second hit against the ...

Scientists uncovered a rare toxic algae behind mass marine deaths in South Australia and warned similar blooms may appear ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

Even as humpbacks rebound in number, their genomes reveal a loss of genetic diversity and a buildup of harmful mutations left ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...