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How a 99-year-old mathematician unraveled a century-old...

Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she an...

Having a young biological age could help with weight loss

In a small study, restricting calories led to greater weight loss among people w...

What kinds of black holes exist — and how are they diff...

Scientists have identified four types of black holes, classified mostly by their...

Personalized gene therapy relieves severe epilepsy in t...

Nature, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02267-0Switching ...

Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral

This Hubble image features spiral galaxy NGC 4654, located 72 million light-year...

How lost shipping containers helped map the world’s oce...

Thousands of shipping containers vanish every year—what becomes of them?

Sunlight benefits and risks: what science says about he...

Could sunlight actually improve your health? New research suggests we may need t...

The Rubin Observatory’s greatest legacy will be this ‘m...

Using the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers are beginning the largest a...

Is it possible to regain a sense of smell? These scient...

Smell is one of the most complex and least understood senses

Most neurons seem to be jacks-of-all-trades, not specia...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but ...

10 of the best pictures of solar eclipses throughout hi...

Humans have been observing solar eclipses for millennia – carving, painting, ske...

Electronic-resonance enhanced molecule for perovskite s...

Nature, Published online: 22 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10919-4Electronic...

Daily briefing: Orcas smash sunfish to smithereens

Nature, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02307-9The dolphi...

We now know how a black hole can be flung across the un...

When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody...

A Million-Panel Project

Utah’s new solar power and battery storage facility is among the largest in the ...

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4954–4960: Celebrating Our Rover E...

Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick...

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