Do you remember the famous images of the supermassive black holes in the centre of the galaxy M87 and our own galaxy the ...

While Nobel Prize announcements have always been newsworthy celebrations of discovery, recent years’ events have been ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same ...

(via PBS Space Time) Imagine a world where humanity masters every planetary resource available to it—our first step on the famous Kardeshev scale of technological advancement. How distant is that step ...

On average, Americans spend about 90% of their time indoors, and the air we breathe at work, school or home affects our ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions.

As you’re deciding whether to eat one more potato chip, a pitched battle takes place in your brain. One group of neurons promotes hunger while another induces satiety. How quickly one group gain ...

Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what’s going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors provide early diagnoses — ...

Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore ...

We need green energy yesterday. And it so happens that nature regularly sends huge bolts of electricity at us out of the sky. So what are the challenges of harvesting lightning for susta ...

In 1952, polio was everywhere: killing or paralyzing roughly half a million people annually. Yet just 10 years later, paralytic polio cases in the US dropped by 96% and we were on track to ...