Research, Space & Discovery
Heat waves claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people in Europe's capital cities this summer as they experienced record temperatures.
Songs are closely linked to narrative and languageThe postHow Music Sparks Imaginationappeared first onNautilus.
A moon may once have been consumed by Venus, after existing alongside the planet for up to 1.7 billion years
After a decade of waiting, Creative Director Al Hope says Alien Isolation 2 "feels like coming home".
Penn Tests Ultra-Fast FLASH Proton Therapy in First U.S. Precision Human Trial
On Aug. 28, 2026 (the evening of Aug. 27 in some time zones), the Moon passed into Earth’s shadow, creating a deep partial lunar eclipse. At the moment of greatest eclipse, 12:13 a.m. EDT, 96.3% of th...
A study found a new mitochondrial pathway in senescent cells that alters how DNA is stored, exposing genes linked to inflammation. Inflammation is essential when the body needs to fight an infection o...
“Broken heart syndrome” can mimic a heart attack so closely that patients often need invasive testing to tell the difference. Researchers have now developed the BioTAK score, which combines biological...
Scientists have long wondered how cells organized into sheets begin to move together to form organs, especially when the sheets form closed, sphere-like surfaces and tissues with no edges to direct mo...
A new study probes genetic variants linked to the big five personality traitsThe postHow Your Genes Shape Your Personalityappeared first onNautilus.
Over massive supermassive black holes too big for early galaxies and detected by the James Webb Space Telescope may not be quite so massive after all.
MMR Refusal Kept Rising Long After Wakefield Retraction, U.S. Study Finds
New research involving more than 1 million Australian feedlot cattle has found that the strongest predictors of death from bovine respiratory disease (BRD) are established before animals even enter th...
Researchers have described a new species of leafless flowering plant found on the forest floor of a national park in western Thailand, and its otherworldly appearance has earned it a fittingly dramati...
For the first time, geographers from Durham University have used freely available satellite radar images to track emperor penguins through the polar winter—giving a year-round view of their movements....
Urban heat adaptation will gain in importance as climate change progresses. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have analyzed how sociodemographic factors (nationality, age, and...
A new study published in the journal Nature reveals that conifers planted outside their native range in the Southern Hemisphere not only grow up to four times faster than those in the Northern Hemisph...
The brain cells you see in the above image help an African fish decode electric signals to spot prey, scan its murky surroundings and communicate with its fellows. By rigorously mapping how these cell...
One dataset, one model? This approach does not always produce the most useful insights, as a dataset often contains many different relationships. To better understand them, researchers at the Paluno R...
For decades, scientists have understood that each of the roughly 20,000 genes in the human body carries instructions for a single kind of protein. Now, researchers at Harvard Medical School have disco...