ZME Science. For years, astronomers have wondered whether another huge planet is lurking unseen in the cold darkness beyond ...

Today, much of the world’s hydrogen comes from fossil fuels. Cleaner hydrogen can instead be made with an electrolyzer, a device that uses electricity to split water molecules. If that electricity ...

A combination of perovskite and silicon has yields a highly efficient tandem solar cell, as pictured here. Photo by Dennis ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich, MATS, and Anthropic have shown that an AI agent can hunt for the person behind a pseudonymous ...

A bird that was once reduced to just five individuals has won New Zealand’s 2026 Bird of the Year. The karure, or Chatham ...

Now researchers have found an equally peculiar pattern at the scale of entire countries: places with more cats tend to report greater happiness. Yet those same cat-rich countries tend to have lower ...

Meet Westlothiana lizziae, also known as “Lizzie,” a tiny Scottish fossil that spent decades holding the crown as one of the oldest known reptiles. At roughly 345 million years old, Lizzie seemed to ...

An illustration showing a chip and DNA strands inside a water drop. Image credits: ZME Science. To you or me, a tiny drop of ...

A newly discovered four-winged dinosaur from China suggests that dinosaur wings evolved twice independently in different ...

RNA and DNA are chemical cousins. But one tiny difference between them (an extra oxygen atom repeated along RNA’s backbone) can radically change how the molecules behave. Researchers have now found ...

Twenty meters beneath a lake in northern Germany, archaeologists have found wood cut, split and shaped by people more than 10 ...

In 2016, AlphaGo beat Go master Lee Sedol. Poker soon followed, as AI systems learned not only to calculate odds but also to ...