Through the genome-wide data of 26 ancient human remains from northern and southern East Asia, spanning 9,500 to 300 years ago, including some extracted from the Qihedong skull, they carried out a series of scientific analyses that supported a southern China origin for proto-Austronesians.

Scientists have found 26 new bacterial species thriving in NASA cleanrooms long thought sterile, challenging assumptions about microbial survival and planetary protection.

Photonic chip uses light interference for 100x faster neural compute than GPUs with massive energy savings.

Tiny chip revolutionizes laser control for million-qubit quantum systems.

Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen departed the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at around 12:20 p.m. EST, sporting their orange pressure suits, for a 5.5-mile journey to the Vehicle Assembly Building where the Space Launch System rocket and their Orion spacecraft were waiting.

Imec stacks 120 Si/SiGe layers on 300mm wafers, enabling production-scale 3D DRAM for AI compute density.

JWST detects record distant supernova resembling local explosions at cosmic dawn.

For the first time we have confirmed that these transients require some sort of central energy source beyond what a supernova can produce.

Sebastian Seung, a leading connectomics researcher, has launched Memazing to build software emulations of brains using real neural wiring diagrams, starting with the fruit fly brain.

In Senon, north-eastern France, a homeowner’s renovation plans were interrupted when diggers unearthed the remains of a Gallo-Roman settlement… a cache of nearly 40,000 coins.

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out… Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.

Instead of looking for quantum gravity where space-time is tiny, subtle quantum effects called q-desics could influence how particles and light move across huge cosmical distances.

A team led by Professor Matthew Powner showed how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at life’s beginning.

What if 2025 is the year technology takes its biggest leap forward yet? We reveal 15 groundbreaking technologies—from hyper-realistic humanoid robots to quantum-enhanced chips—that are already redefining how we live.

Physics-native computing—hardware that solves equations by mimicking the physics being modeled—will emerge as a recognized category alongside CPUs and GPUs in 2026.

Graphene’s electrons just broke physics rules, flowing like a perfect, otherworldly quantum liquid that decouples heat from electricity.

The discovery of the first “superfluid molecule” proves that frictionless flow can exist at the molecular scale, challenging our understanding of quantum states.

Impactful new results from Fermilab have essentially debunked the “sterile neutrino” theory, sending physicists back to the drawing board to explain dark matter.

A new discovery in semiconductor physics reveals a “hidden” pathway for chemical reactions, overturning conventional beliefs about how electricity and matter interact.

For the first time, light has been manipulated to form a rigid crystal structure that still flows like a liquid—a “photonic supersolid” that makes “solid light” science fact.