Science

The ordinary graphite in pencil lead is proving to be surprisingly multifaceted at the microscale. In a study...

NASA has announced the top student-developed solutions for environmental control and life support systems in future crewed lunar landers from participants in the 2026 Human Lander Challenge. The announcement marks the culmination of months of research by university teams...

For NASA’s next generation of deep space exploration missions, spacecraft may need to refuel in Earth orbit before pushing farther into the solar system. Similar to how a gas pump needs a nozzle to fit your fuel tank, future...

Artificial intelligence is getting better at everything, including hacking. It’s becoming easier than ever before to steal someone’s identity, cripple sensitive banking and health care systems, or hold a company’s data ransom. And if cybersecurity defenders aren’t ready, cyber...

A kilometer down in the ocean, football-sized roly-polies slowly clamber along the seafloor. Their metabolism is so slow that they can go years between meals. Now, researchers have found a genetic quirk that helps explain the evolution of these...

“Illuminating.” “Spectacular.” “Compelling.” This is how community college students described the two days they spent at MIT.nano...

Healthy brains may be built through a process of controlled damage and rapid repair.The most dangerous type of DNA damage is a regular feature of healthy early brain development, experiments in mice show. As newborn neurons squeeze through the...

The newly painted Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. was supposed to be “American Flag blue.” Instead, on June 16, the water turned an un-American shade of sickly green as an algal bloom burst through the water. While...

Available for 33 daysAs the UK and Europe battles with extreme weather warnings, is it time for us to consider some more extreme tactics to tackle the heat? Tom Whipple is joined by Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter.The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found...