Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond ... These glass plates recorded images of the night sky using a light-sensitive emulsion covering their surface. The telescope’s size ...

The study of eye size in various species provides fascinating ... which can influence the behavior and physical adaptations of prey species. This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is ...

Heterogeneity in prevalence estimates identified across studies and regions indicates that more research is required to draw stronger conclusions about the scale of OCSEA. However, the findings of ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

In Finland’s freezing Arctic, lakes and rivers have nourished the lifeways of Indigenous Skolt Sámi communities for ...

Because Charon is just over half the size of Pluto, the two bodies then began orbiting each other in a cosmic dance in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. However, a recent study in Nature ...

Around 3.4 million years ago, a hidden evolutionary tale unfolded in the Indo-Burma region: a cryptic pangolin species ...

Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the most.

Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-024-01819-7 Our data-driven world demands more—more capacity, more efficiency, more computing power.

Now, a study released Thursday in the journal Nature Reviews shows that this trend ... for devastating droughts and wildfires. As the size of that “sponge” increases, the atmosphere can ...