About 40 years ago, researchers found ancient ship carvings on a temple wall in Cyprus, possibly all carved at once at the tail end of the Bronze Age, around the time of the infamous Bronze Age collapse. Then, decades later,...

The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just scratching the surface of how it even comes into existence. In a paper published in Nature Neuroscience today, a Stanford-led research team says the brains of humans and other...

The astronomical bodies fire off powerful jets in two distinct phases in their feeding cycle, researchers discover.

Until now, scientists have concentrated on reading the message: its genetic letters, the length of each fragment, and where in the genome it came from. A new preprint study suggests that how the message is folded could matter too.