Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

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For the first time, scientists have answered a longstanding question in cell biology about a partnership of proteins called ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave. Researchers have now mapped this hidden architecture in unprecedented detail, showing ...

Chemistry is often presented as one of the most advanced sciences, yet its day-to-day practice remains surprisingly manual.

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...