Fragrance firms are betting AI can reproduce agarwood's prized resin and end the repeated harvesting that has devastated wild Aquilaria populations - but sceptics doubt it will save the forests.

The Belgian physicist's Antarctic observatory cracked open a new window on the universe - and a new era for neutrino science.

The prize cements optogenetics as a cornerstone of neuroscience, with implications for brain research and future therapies.

A fresh look at Photo 51 rewrites who deserves credit for DNA's double helix - a case study in how history erases the people behind the breakthrough.

A billion gold collisions at Brookhaven's RHIC revealed an unexpected dip in particle flow, a possible first glimpse of the long-sought critical point in nuclear matter.

A new study crowns the bare-throated bellbird and red-legged seriema as nature's loudest, a finding with real stakes for conservation tech and environmental monitoring.

A Nature paper shows CRISPR enzymes can be gated by light and sound, promising safer gene therapies with fewer off-target edits.

Google's orbital AI experiment could rewrite the economics of cloud computing and push the industry toward space-based data centers.

A monumental burial at Vulci, untouched by ancient thieves, reveals elite grave goods that could rewrite Etruscan history.

MIT's dissolving battery could spare future patients a retrieval surgery, but capacity must jump 10x before it is clinic-ready.

The proof may qualify for a Clay Mathematics Institute prize, but it raises a bigger question for anyone who relies on AI-generated results: did it solve the intended problem or exploit a technicality?

The next Starship test will reach orbit for the first time and deploy working Starlink V3 satellites, turning a test flight into a revenue-generating mission.