High-resolution images offer a glimpse at what might lie within the gas giant’s most fiery moon Jupiter’s moon Io, seen here in a photo from the Galileo spacecraft, is the most volcanically active bod...
For many women, the syndrome can return and researchers don’t know why Bacterial vaginosis often returns after treatment. A new clinical trial suggests treating the woman plus her male partner may hel...
Chemical properties coax a material to form nonrepeating tiling patterns This material forms irregular patterns in which the molecules inside one triangle are rotated 60 degrees with respect to those ...
A set of tools found in Tanzania were fashioned from the bones of hippos and elephants A researcher examines edge damage on a 1.5-million-year-old bone tool found in Africa, part of the oldest known s...
Two different types of flares light up the galactic center The disk of hot plasma surrounding Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole, constantly flickers and bubbles in this artist’s illus...
New, stealthy songs help crickets evade parasitic flies. But the flies are striking back A Pacific field cricket comes face to face with a parasitic fly in Hawaii. The crickets softened their chirps w...
The network has identified asteroids and exoplanets, and even observed major space missions Mher Khachatryan observes the sky near Yerevan, Armenia. His telescope links him to a global network of hobb...
The female body has often been overlooked in science, and the vagina remains the most taboo part of it. This reproductive organ houses billions of bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses in a complex com...
Experiments show that a phenomenon called Helmholtz resonance explains the sound Clapping hands spew out a jet of air, visualized here by baby powder. That jet helps explain the sweet sound of applaus...
That suggests the personalized treatment may work for solid tumors, not just blood cancers In CAR-T cell therapy, T cells, like the one illustrated (brown) attacking cancer cells (purple), are program...
Water could have formed only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (seen here in a false-color X-ray image) is all that remains of a star that exploded thou...
A probe would bring samples of the planet’s atmosphere to Earth Venus’ wispy sulfuric acid clouds swirl prettily in this image from the Galileo spacecraft, taken in 1990. NASA BOSTON —Droplets of Venu...