As heatwaves grow more frequent and intense, cooling our homes has become a pressing issue. Yet, millions of households lack air conditioning, particularly in regions like northern France, where ...

Gasoline without oil fields sounds like a contradiction. Meet the machine daring you to rethink what a green fill-up could be. In Los Angeles, a fridge-sized box hums, making gasoline from ambient air ...

Could the most tantalizing clue to extraterrestrial life be trapped in a rocky riddle on Mars while the decision to solve it rests with accountants? The red planet may be sending signals, but the ...

How can a delicate butterfly survive with a genome that looks like a puzzle spilled on the floor? Cracking that riddle could upend ideas about evolution and open an unexpected door in cancer research.

For over 20 years, scientists have tracked a peculiar atmospheric phenomenon on Mars, a 1,800 km ribbon-like cloud that forms above Arsia Mons. This massive feature reliably appears during the Martian ...

What if eight arms don’t share the work equally? A cache of seaside videos has scientists rethinking how octopuses choose which limb does what, with implications that stretch far beyond the ocean.

They say holograms need dark rooms and heavy kit. What if the phone in your pocket just proved otherwise? The lab fantasy of 3D images springing from a phone screen just got a practical blueprint, ...

They call it unimaginable speed for sand that barely seems to breathe. What did Perseverance see that turns a still life into a stopwatch? From the Kerrlaguna outcrop, Perseverance tracks rows of ...

A hunt for methane in 1976 stumbled onto a clue no one could explain; in 2025, scientists returned to ask the ocean a harder question. What they confirmed beneath the seafloor could redraw the map of ...

You can picture your second birthday cake, right down to the candles. Neuroscientists say your brain may not have been recording yet, though new clues complicate the story. Your first years are a blur ...

On a lab bench in London, chemists have coaxed two of life’s earliest actors into shaking hands. Working in simple water-rich conditions, a UCL team forged direct links between RNA and amino acids, a ...

At Tesla, one word suddenly rankles: new. Surrounding Cybertruck deliveries, troubling signs shake the transparency touted by the brand and pose a simple question: what is the sticker on these ...