Science

The coral reef, once bustling with more than 5,000 long-spined sea urchins, became a ghost town in a matter of days. White skeletons with dangling spines dotted the reef near the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, the water cloudy...

The AI Policy Forum (AIPF) is an initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to move...

In ancient Maya civilization, cacao wasn’t just for the elites. Traces of the sacred plant show up in ceramics from all types of neighborhoods and dwellings in and around a former Maya city, researchers report September 26 in the Proceedings...

Cocooned within the bowels of the Earth, one mineral’s metamorphosis into another may trigger some of the deepest earthquakes ever detected. These cryptic tremors — known as deep-focus earthquakes — are a seismic conundrum. They violently rupture at depths greater...

When an undersea volcano erupted in Tonga in January, its watery blast was huge and unusual — and scientists are still trying to understand its impacts.The volcano, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, shot millions of...

As people around the world marveled in July at the most detailed pictures of the cosmos snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope, biologists got their first glimpses of a different set of images — ones that could help...

Face masks — the unofficial symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic — are leveling up. A mask outfitted with special electronics can detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and other airborne viruses within 10 minutes of exposure, materials researcher Yin...

Fetus is seen apparently smiling after mother eats carrots. FM6 is described by researchers as "cheek raiser" and FM12 as "lip-corner puller" ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze away from the deep universe toward our home Solar System, capturing an image of a luminous Neptune and its delicate, dusty rings in detail not seen...