For decades, marine scientists have tried mimicking nature’s hydrodynamic brilliance. Seals, whales, and rays slice through water with uncanny efficiency. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), by ...

To achieve this, the researchers carefully tuned the cooling rate. A fast “thermal quench”—dropping the temperature at around ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

From “realm” to “swift,” a set of distinctly ChatGPT-esque words — dubbed “GPT words” by the researchers — are steadily ...

An AI robot performed gallbladder surgery without human help, and it worked every time. For over two decades, surgical robots ...

The team recovered protein fragments from teeth found at multiple sites across Turkana, ranging in age from 1.5 to 18 million ...

The numbers speak for themselves. Cycling can be at least four times more energy-efficient than walking and eight times more efficient than running. This efficiency comes from minimising three major ...

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered the closest-ever images of the Sun — a blistering 3.8 million miles from its roiling surface. The new images ...

For decades, above-the-knee amputees have had to live with stiff, uncomfortable prosthetics that felt more like rigid tools ...

Garum, liquamen, allec and muria all refer to Roman sauces created by crushing the whole fish and then fermenting it in brine ...

Yet the Scladina multitool is the first known lion bone turned into a tool. It means Neanderthals not only handled lions, but ...