Science & Technology

The first full-color image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared.

Fossil research has revealed an exquisite merger of art and science: a long-stemmed flower of a newly described plant species encased in a 30-million-year-old tomb together with a parasitic wasp.

Triptans, a commonly prescribed class of migraine drugs, may also be useful in treating obesity, a new study suggests. In studies on obese mice, a daily dose of a triptan led animals to eat less food and lose weight over the course of a month, the team…

Researchers have developed a new tool that could automate the process of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and eventually allow it to move online.

Chemists use their flash Joule heating process to synthesize 2D flakes of boron nitride and boron carbon nitride, highly valued for lending thermal and chemical stability to compounds.

The same four factors that explain how people change their beliefs on a variety of issues can account for the recent rise in anti-science attitudes, a new review suggests.

The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers.

Producing biomaterials that match the performance of cartilage and tendons has been an elusive goal for scientists, but a new material demonstrates a promising new approach to mimicking natural tissue.

After almost two decades of synchrotron experiments, scientists have captured a clear picture of a cell’s nuclear pores, which are the doors and windows through which critical material in your body flows in and out of the cell’s nucleus. These findings…

Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed ‘decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of ‘founder of genetics.” So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th birthday of Mendel approaches on 20 July.

In 2019, astronomers observed the nearest example to date of a star that was shredded, or ‘spaghettified,’ after approaching too close to a massive black hole. That tidal disruption of a sun-like star by a black hole 1 million times more massive than i…

A new study can help guide proper treatment course for patients depending on heart function and severity of heart damage.

During sperm production, an enormous amount of DNA has to be packed into a very small space without breaking anything. A central role is played by certain proteins around which the DNA thread is wrapped — the protamines. A recent study provides new in…