These images from the James Webb Space Telescope zoom in on six bright, red, extremely distant galaxies that appear to be too massive to exist. I. Labbé/Swinburne University of Technology, CSA, ESA, NASA.  Image processing: G. Brammer/Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic...

Small stone points such as this one, unearthed at a French rock-shelter, served as arrowheads for Homo sapiens who introduced archery to Europe around 54,000 years ago, researchers say. Philippe Psaila By Bruce Bower February 22, 2023 at 2:00 pm Homo sapiens who...

Electrons each behave like a tiny version of a bar magnet (shown), with their own magnetic field. A new measurement characterizes the electron’s magnetism more precisely than ever before. TEK IMAGE/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Plus By Emily Conover February 23,...

The Milky Way spawns stars in places such as the Rosette Nebula, seen here in a far-infrared image from the Herschel Space Telescope, and does so with much more vigor than astronomers had thought, according to a new study. HOBYS Key Programme Consortia/PACS &...

A new injectable gel (pictured) can react with the body’s sugars to “grow” an electrode inside living tissue, a study in zebrafish shows. THOR BALKHED By Simon Makin February 23, 2023 at 4:25 pm For the first time, researchers have harnessed the body’s own chemistry...