Droplets of liquid mercury from a broken thermometer. Photo: Tavo Romann via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0, cropped A San Francisco fusion startup says it has turned mercury into stable gold. Marathon Fusion announced on...

Terracotta warriors in Pit 1 at the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang near Xi’an, China. Photo: Gary Lee Todd via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0 Fingerprints pressed into the clay of China’s Terracotta Army suggest that...

Researchers have developed an experimental treatment that has helped some people with advanced retinitis pigmentosa (RP) regain limited visual abilities by combining gene therapy with specialized goggles. The approach does not restore normal sight, but...

Egypt’s Western Desert, now part of the vast Sahara, was once home to sharks swimming through warm tropical waters. A discovery of 14 fossilized shark teeth on the Abu-Tartur Plateau is offering scientists a closer...

Black holes are often described as cosmic objects that swallow everything that comes too close. But could these extreme environments also provide the ingredients needed to create planets? New research suggests that the answer may...

Nearly four decades after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, scientists have discovered that some microscopic fragments of nuclear fuel remain remarkably intact, continuing to hold radioactive substances within their original structures. Researchers from Leibniz University Hannover...

Astronomers searching for the Solar System’s hypothetical ninth planet may finally have a specific object worth chasing. Researchers from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan identified a faint infrared source that appears to have shifted...

An extraordinary neutrino that struck a detector beneath the Mediterranean Sea in 2023 has left scientists searching for an equally extraordinary explanation. Now, researchers have proposed a possibility that sounds like science fiction: the particle...

Could sending whisky into orbit change the way it ages? Scientists from Scotland and Japan are preparing to find out. A research team led by the University of Glasgow plans to launch a small satellite...

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that transformed how scientists study the brain. Their work on light-gated ion channels laid the foundation...