A sword dating to the Crusades spent centuries entombed in sand and barnacles off the Mediterranean coast of Israel, until a university student spotted its hilt jutting from the seabed.
Shlomi Katzin, a graduate student in the Department of…

A sword dating to the Crusades spent centuries entombed in sand and barnacles off the Mediterranean coast of Israel, until a university student spotted its hilt jutting from the seabed.
Shlomi Katzin, a graduate student in the Department of…

For the first time, scientists can watch how plants “breathe,” regulating air and water in real time, pore by pore, as conditions change around them.
A new system developed in Urbana, Illinois, links live leaf imaging with gas measurements –…

Astronomers have uncovered a fascinating new exoplanet, TOI-5734 b, located roughly 106 light-years away from Earth. The planet, discovered through data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the HARPS-N spectrograph,…

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s relatives lead the Lost Women of Science production team to a collection of papers and artifacts stored in a New England storage unit, revealing an inner struggle that she kept carefully out of sight—even as she was…

Astronomers have unveiled one of the most ambitious maps yet of the early universe, revealing a vast “sea of light” between galaxies that had remained otherwise hidden in previous surveys.
Using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy…

Most of the rechargeable batteries used in today’s technology, from electric cars to the phones in our pockets, are lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. Since its inception in the early 1990s, Li-ion battery technology has been widely adopted for…

March 5, 2026
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Scientists created a digital library full of ants
Using a synchrotron powered CT scanner, the Antscan project created an open-source digital library cataloguing thousands of 3D ant specimens

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Science is one step closer to cracking the code of longevity thanks to a new study that identified dozens of proteins linked with slower aging in the blood of centenarians.
Scientists in Switzerland collected and compared blood samples from…