This specific iconography of subjugation — a bound captive struck by a weapon — has deep roots in Egyptian state ideology. It ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Every mammal, every fish, every vertebrate (creatures that have a spine) has two eyes. It’s been that way for millions and ...

For people trapped in the cycle of severe depression, hope is a cruel tease. It arrives briefly with a new pill or a round of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black holes; monsters millions of times the sun’s mass, existing when the cosmos ...

Photographers capture mutant crayfish, cleaning fish, and synchronized whales in this year's top underwater contests.

During a close approach to the Sun, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter watched that tipping point unfold in unusually fine detail. The spacecraft observed the M7.7-class flare—strong but still ...

A team of researchers has seemingly managed to do just that: they successfully converted a Type A human kidney into a ...

Using data from more than 18,000 people across eight U.S. aging studies, researchers found that super agers carry a distinct ...

New research suggests this divide begins almost the moment you’re exposed. A study from Yale University finds that the earliest responses from the cells lining your nose (triggered within hours of ...

According to a new study by researchers Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, and Mark Graham, Large Language Models (LLMs) ...

Even more striking were the changes that occur as sharks grow. At around 3m in body length, white sharks undergo a major ...