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.

For over 20 years, scientists have tracked a peculiar atmospheric phenomenon on Mars, a 1,800 km ribbon-like cloud that forms above Arsia Mons. This massive feature reliably appears during the Martian ...

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, ...

When “solid ground” drifts into the only crossing, who should yield: the commuters or the island? In a quiet corner of the Midwest, a small armada has its annual answer. On Wisconsin’s Lake Chippewa, ...

Noon is supposed to belong to the Sun. So why are astronomers quietly planning for a starlight show in broad daylight? And what happens if the opening act arrives sooner than anyone expects? Something ...

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 ...

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, ...