Geckos use the saccule - a part of their inner ear traditionally associated with maintaining balance and body positioning - to detect low-frequency vibrations, according to a duo of biologists.
The prize honors innovation at Google DeepMind and in academia. Three researchers share the award for using machine learning to predict proteins' 3D shapes and design the molecules from scratch.
Humans could also have a mechanism to temporarily slow down the development of an embryo.
In a study from 2022, researchers issued a "warning to humanity" about the consequences of tree losses, backed by 45 other scientists from 20 different countries.
Japanese researchers have uncovered inorganic nanostructures around deep-ocean hydrothermal vents that closely resemble key molecules involved in life processes.
Astronomers refer to the Shapley Concentration as a "basin of attraction". It's a region containing many clusters and groups of galaxies and comprises the greatest concentration of matter in the local Universe.
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won for discoveries that paved the way for the AI boom.
Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, an extraordinary discovery has been made. Microbes — alive and thriving — have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock.
TIC 290061484 is a system of gravitationally bound stars consisting of a tightly-orbiting binary pair with a third star that circles both. Astonishingly, they're so close together the entire system would fit inside the orbit of Mercury.
Ceres’ crust is probably made from 90% ice today. Using data from NASA’s Dawn mission, scientists found it was likely once a muddy ocean world.
Supermassive black holes are some of the most impressive objects in the universe - with masses around one billion times more than that of the Sun.
This discovery may shed light on new physics, taking us closer to breakthroughs in particle interactions beyond the Standard Model.
The light of a supernova that has traveled for 10 billion years to reach us has given us a new measurement of the Hubble constant - the accelerating rate at which the Universe is expanding.
Researchers analyzed new data describing the Moon's rigidity under the gravitational influence of Earth and the Sun, finding its mass is unlikely to be solid all the way through.
The science team thinks that igneous and/or metamorphic processes likely formed the rock.
