Gooey birch tar helped our distant cousins make weapons and possibly treat wounds.

Discovery at Monte Verde puts north-to-south expansion theory back at centre of heated debate on continent’s human history

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the archives of a French museum

Eli Lilly’s experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide met the primary and key secondary endpoints in a trial, showing significant reductions in weight loss and blood sugar levels.

An international team of researchers from Australia’s RMIT University and the University of Melbourne jointly with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has experimentally demonstrated the operation of a prototype quantum battery…

State funding for remediating abandoned sites also sends a legal team to pore over yellowed articles of incorporation and old microfiche.

What happens when scientists crack open a salmon can sealed nearly half a century ago ? The answer, it turns out, reshapes our understanding of ocean ecosystem health in ways nobody anticipated. Researchers at the University of Washington did exactly that…

An Antioch family’s electric vehicle suddenly shut down due to a faulty battery, trapping a 12-month-old child inside for 30 minutes as the family scrambled to unlock it, and they eventually figured out the car’s single metal key is hidden in a fob accessed…

“Imitation” drugs, unexpected benefits, serious pitfalls—here’s what comes next as GLP-1 medications continue to rise in popularity

Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired up to the generator on a car from the ’60s or before — worked? [Jonelsonster] has some answers.…

Projection mapping is widely known as a lighting technique that overlays images onto buildings or objects to create visual effects. In fields such as extended reality (XR) and vision science, however, ...

Pesticides, fertilizers and habitat destruction are the likely culprits.

Glass appears to be a solid, but in theory it sometimes behaves more like an extremely slow liquid. Physicists in Utrecht now show that glass-like structures can also exist in equilibrium, which is something ...

LG's joint venture with GM is rehiring about 700 workers in Tennessee who were laid off when EV demand sank, and the battery maker has a $4.3 billion deal with Tesla for Michigan-made cells.

The genetic mutation that enables yaks to live in environments with much less oxygen, and may hold the key to repairing nerve damage

The Washington Research Foundation is investing $7 million in Nobel laureate David Baker's UW lab to turn AI-designed proteins into real-world tools.

Researchers discover that the prefrontal cortex models the behavior of social partners, allowing groups to self-correct and maintain collective survival during hardship.

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago, leaving behind minerals that can preserve signs of life.…

The information your eyes takes in is only half the story.

AI is very powerful at doing a wide range of verbal and numerical tasks, but we haven't been able to make robots effective in the real, physical world. To solve this problem, computational neuroscientist Gaurav Suri argues that we need to give AI models their…

L'Oréal and Nvidia have expanded their partnership.