For decades, taxpayers have been forced to prop up an increasingly outdated broadband subsidy program with billions of dollars a year. Now, advocates for new broadband-deployment technologies are ...

Deep in the brainstem sits a small but important cluster of neurons known as the locus coeruleus (LC), Latin for “blue place.” It makes up a tiny fraction of the brain’s cells but pl ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of new porous materials made from carbon-based molecules ...

Somewhere between the microscopic realm of elementary particles and the macroscopic world of human beings, something strange ...

An international collaboration co-led by an IAS scholar has uncovered a universal rule governing one of the most powerful ...

Where and when did people build the first city?” sounds like a simple enough question. But archaeologists have been arguing ...

Bipedalism, or walking on two legs, is one of the key features that distinguishes humans from other apes. But when and why our ancestors transitioned from a life often spent in trees to a life spent a ...

When picturing a scaled, toothy Tyrannosaurus rex stomping across North America, building nests and eating other dinosaurs, it’s easy to forget that scientists have gleaned everything we know ab ...

Researchers at Maynooth University (MU) have developed a first-of-its-kind DNA computer, described as one of the most complex ...

For centuries, defining and understanding consciousness has eluded neuroscientists, philosophers, and doctors. Is consciousness what it means to be alive? Is it knowing who we are, as individual ...

Centered just over the tip of India, and spanning more than 15,000 kilometers in diameter, is Earth's deepest gravity hole.