Science
NASA has unveiled a new collection of images captured by the Mars rover Perseverance, including a sweeping panorama of a region known as Arbot and the rover’s sixth selfie since landing on the Red Planet in 2021. The visuals were taken during the rover’s farthest westward journey beyond the......
Scientists searching for life beyond Earth have developed a new statistical approach that could improve the detection of biological activity on planets and icy moons such as Mars, Europa, and Enceladus. Instead of focusing on identifying specific molecules linked to life, the method examines how those......
Researchers at Delft University of Technology have demonstrated for the first time that two-qubit logic gates can be performed on mobile electron spins traveling across a silicon chip — a breakthrough published in Nature on May 6, 2026, that could reshape the roadmap toward large-scale quantum......
An international consortium of more than 60 researchers has identified 1,785 previously unknown microproteins embedded in segments of human DNA long assumed to be functionally inert. The discovery, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, could expand the known human proteome by nearly 10 percent,......
Primitive microbes were using molybdenum, a metal that was extremely scarce in the oxygen-poor oceans of early Earth, billions of years before it became widely available, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. The finding challenges a long-standing assumption that life first depended......
Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a thin atmosphere around a small frozen body orbiting the distant reaches of the solar system, overturning long-held assumptions about what small icy worlds are capable of. The object, designated (612533) 2002 XV93, measures approximately 500 kilometers in diameter......
A research team from the University of New South Wales has identified 27 candidate planets orbiting pairs of stars, a discovery that could more than double the number of known worlds in binary star systems. The findings, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, expand a catalog......
NASA released a two-minute timelapse video on May 1 that compresses six years of the Curiosity rover's journey across Mars. The footage draws from images captured by the rover's right navigation camera between January 2, 2020, and March 8, 2026, spanning Martian sols 2,633 to 4,830. Originally......
Butterflies and moths separated by vast evolutionary distances have independently developed nearly identical warning color patterns by repeatedly using the same two genes over 120 million years. The finding comes from new research that examined species from South American rainforests and points to a......
A joint NASA and Indian Space Research Organisation satellite has produced new high resolution maps showing rapid ground subsidence beneath Mexico City. Early analysis indicates that parts of the metropolitan area are sinking by more than 2 centimetres per month, highlighting a growing geological and......
Scientists have developed a gene editing technique capable of inserting DNA segments more than 13 times larger than previous limits, opening a path toward replacing entire defective genes in a single therapeutic intervention. The method, known as prime assembly, was published on April 29, 2026 in Nature......
The molecular identity of an embryo may arise from far simpler principles than previously assumed. A research team at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich has shown that DNA methylation patterns in early embryonic development follow universal physical laws, typically associated with non-equilibrium......
Massive stars do not always slow down as they age, according to new research led by Kyoto University. Scientists report that magnetic fields inside certain stars can accelerate their rotation in the final stages before collapse. The finding challenges a long-standing assumption in astrophysics that stellar......
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