The science magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The winning entries are dramatic, intimate portraits of research. Nature magazine has ...

The best of scientists’ photos from the field. Plus, researchers are split about whether it’s OK for AI to write science papers and bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics, says Carlo ...

Scientists at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) are working on a humanoid robot that can be part of frontline military mission, an official said on Saturday. The Research ...

The first X-ray pictures of a mysterious sphere that some ... has since been scrutinised by scientists. It is said to feature three layers of a “metal-like” material, 18 “microspheres ...

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NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has officially begun its scientific mission: capturing about 3,600 images per day to ... This comprehensive view will allow scientists to track how the cosmic ...

Forecasts for the coming months suggest higher than usual temperatures up to July, the scientists say. Rainfall predictions are less clear, though some forecasts point to drier conditions over large ...

A decade later, Australian scientists identified the chytrid fungus as the main culprit. Today, less than 50 individual southern corroboree frogs live in the wild. Ever since learning of the ...

Bottom: Three microscope images show (left to right) bosonic 23Na forming a Bose-Einstein condensate; a single spin state in a weakly interacting 6Li Fermi mixture; and both spin states of a ...