This 2023 astronaut photo shows three glaciers merging into a single massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountains. The stripy ...

Scans of the man's affected hand and foot revealed "destructive lytic lesions that had completely replaced" the bones in the tips of the middle finger and big toe. Lytic lesions are areas where bone ...

Gain-of-function experiments can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people in the wild. But they're also used for many other areas of study within biology.

The Walker S2 humanoid robot, which can change its own battery when it's running low on power, could potentially be left to ...

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A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic flight quieter than ever before.

Experts have debated the meaning of this tomb offering for decades but generally agree it depicts some sort of ceremony or ...

​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into ...

A study of prehistoric skeletons from the Italian Alps shows that society may have been organized around fathers and that Ötzi the Iceman had a unique family lineage.

If you’ve ever wanted to enjoy a bird's-eye view of the world, drones are the easiest way to soar above the Earth. Most ...

When two fluids don't mix well, they sometimes form strange patterns called "viscous fingering," or Saffman-Taylor instability. Studying these patterns can help scientists understand how to design ...