A mountain collapse in Nepal turned a calm river into a deadly flood in just seven minutes, killing dozens and leaving scientists scrambling to...
Shoppers in Hong Kong are now being greeted by a robot behind the counter. Humanoid robots have started serving customers at convenience stores in...
Scientists have taught one of biology's essential enzymes to read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, potentially expanding what living systems can be...
Hong Kong's first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, is set to beam a live lecture down to Earth from space, a first for the city's education system. The...
China is building a fleet of satellites that will watch the sun and cosmic explosions from multiple angles at once, a first for space observation...
A 37-year-old community theater actor from suburban Atlanta has become the first professional Santa Claus with Down syndrome in the United States...
A faint signal buried in years of space telescope data may point to the first direct detection of a dark matter particle, a claim that has reignited...
When heat waves hit cities, not all green spaces are equal. New research from the United Kingdom shows that urban woodlands provide the strongest...
The human brain's earliest stem cells are not just passive builders. They actively respond to two very different kinds of instructions: how they...
A detector buried nearly a mile underground in the United States has picked up a single particle interaction that physicists cannot easily explain...
South Asia's roughly 4,367 Bengal tigers face a threat that is easy to overlook: parasites. A new study suggests these infections could act as silent...
After eight years traveling together through the inner Solar System, a critical piece of the BepiColombo spacecraft detached from the rest on...
The ancient Romans built concrete that heals its own cracks, and researchers now suspect the same kind of clever chemistry may explain how the...
Pakistan is going to the Moon, and it is bringing a rover named after its founding father. The country's first indigenous lunar rover, Jinnah 1, is...