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Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.

The steps were poorly preserved, but still hint at an ambling pace of 1.6 meters per second, roughly equivalent to a quick walking speed for a human.

The newest "Dragon Hatchling" AI model is testing whether skipping words in intermediate reasoning could cut computational cost.

Incendiamoeba cascadensis can replicate at 145° F, breaking the heat tolerance record for eukaryotes, a domain of life that includes plants and animals.

The joy that author Alexis Nikole Nelson injects into this cookbook makes foraging approachable.

The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth's.

A thickening cortex, as shown in MRIs, preceded amyloid-beta accumulation, a known hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, by up to seven years.

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses existential threats to humankind: extreme heat, never-ending drought and a plan to provide Earth with sunlight on demand.

For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.

A sickle across the throat and a padlock on the toe were likely meant to keep this 17th-century Polish teen from resurrecting.