Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Sea mollusc shells are patterned not through conscious control, but by chemistry acting at the shell’s growing edge. A thin strip of tissue known as the mantle secretes both the shell material and its ...

Some deep-sea fish may be able to see light in a different way from most other vertebrates, according to a new study. The fish, found in the Red Sea, have what the scientists behind the new study ...

Every Winter Olympics cycle, people turn on their television or whatever device suits their viewing needs and see athletes using a broom to help guide a 44-pound stone down a sheet of ice. The brooms, ...

A few years ago, when I first started experimenting with generative AI as a partner at a consulting firm, I noticed something that surprised me: It was helping me a lot more than it was helping my ...

Seashells are so plentiful that you may sometimes take them for granted. Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of ...