The Champagne Cluster is a rare and beautiful example of two galaxy clusters smashing together. Its festive name comes from ...

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of ...

If you’ve been around racetracks as long as I have, you know there’s a distinct difference between a team just showing up to participate and a team showing up to dominate. When a manufacturer like ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

A research team at Leibniz-HKI has described a new enzyme that renders the highly toxic molecule malleicyprol harmless. Malleicyprol is considered an important virulence factor of Burkholderia ...

The atomic force microscope (AFM) was invented five years after the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), but it has since become the most widely used form of scanning probe microscopy. However, the ...