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.

On a planet with thin, dry air, a 1,800 km cloud appears like clockwork and vanishes by dawn. After two decades of dead ends, what finally cracked the case? Each Martian winter, a ribbon of cloud ...

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.

It slips into a pocket, then shrugs off chaos at full tilt. What happens when rescue teams can literally throw their eyes into danger? From a hand toss to rock-steady hover in a blink, a 112-gram ...

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, ...

Parents blame a chatbot for the unthinkable, and its maker is now racing to redraw the lines. Who should decide what your teenager can ask an AI: you, the system, or a court? OpenAI plans to add ...

The fastest train in history shattered a speed once reserved for the skies, yet it promises fewer emissions than your daily drive. Who built it, and will its rivals push rail beyond rails themselves?

Why would NASA fixate on speckles smaller than a grain of sand? On a planet of endless red dust, a new pattern is daring scientists to rethink what leaves a mark. On the floor of Jezero Crater, ...

Perpetual motion is impossible, right? Then why can you now watch a piece of matter that won’t stop moving, no microscope required? At the University of Colorado Boulder, physicists Hanqing Zhao and ...