Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience.

The discovery of new medicines often takes place in North America, Europe and Asia. So that's where the agenda tends to be ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...

Large language models lack grounding in physical causality — a gap world models are designed to fill. Here's how three distinct architectural approaches (JEPA, Gaussian splats, and end-to-end ...

Two University of Victoria (UVic) geologists have integrated field geology with statistical modeling to give scientists a new view of the chemical reactions happening on ocean floors billions of years ...

Tiny bits of asteroid Bennu that landed in Houston are doing a lot more than sitting in a display case. Scientists at NASA’s ...

Scientists discovered that Greenland’s ice sheet may be slowly churning deep below the surface, revealing a hidden process ...

Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. And the current rate of increase to a single average day—1.33 additional milliseconds per century—is ...

In the study, researchers compared two such parameterizations: one developed by Fox-Kemper in 2011 and another developed in 2023 by co-author Abigail Bodner ScM’20 PhD’21, assistant professor of Earth ...

Surface water is fundamental to the Earth system, and it is undergoing rapid transformation driven by climate variability, extreme events, land use change, ...

A Nobel Prize winner was stripped of all honors and titles by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) – the institution he led for decades. James Watson publicly repeated claims that black people are ...