Advances

After decades of work, physicists have finally broken into the atom to build the first nuclear clock

New research harnessed the highly absorbent dye tartrazine, used as the common food coloring Yellow No. 5, to turn tissues in living mice clear—temporarily revealing organs and vessels inside the animals

Scientists propose that large chunks of gold could form from earthquakes’ pressure

AI and tiny worms team up to get to treats

A new study suggests that waves of aging-related changes occur at two distinct points in our life

Study participants felt time distortion, fewer negative thoughts and greater detachment from feelings with a noninvasive ultrasound intervention

Mathematicians reveal that tiling your multidimensional bathroom will lead to never-ending disorder

Can you find the pattern behind this progression of digits?

A new Greenland map suggests how geology might shift and twist below the ice

Around 252 million years ago tardigrades may have escaped extinction using this one weird trick

Gutless, solar-powered worms genetically control their resident algae

Newfound spiderlike features suggest lunar explorers should watch their step