A team of researchers from several U.S. institutions has created an organoid culture system that generates complex skin from human pluripotent stem cells.

Around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, triggering Younger Dryas climate change; this event created environmental conditions at Abu Hureyra, Syria, that ...

The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age was a far-flung transformation in world history. Margaryan et al sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a multi-object survey spectrograph installed on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, has cataloged more galaxies ...

In 2023, astronomers reported a tentative detection of dimethylsulfide -- which is predominately produced by marine microbes on Earth and regarded as a biosignature gas -- in the atmosphere of K2-18b.