The Red Rectangle Nebula doesn’t merely look modern-art cubist bizarre. Its very light is strange, its composition is food for philosophy, and it remains a hot venue of current research. Located in ...

Virtual reality headsets today use your eyes and ears to make simulated experiences seem more real, but what about your other senses? Researchers at Stanford University have come up with a way for ...

New Hubble images have revealed objects with shapes and patterns that don’t match any known class of celestial bodies.

Researchers introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape objects using a computer-controlled sewing machine. The team's method uses the sewing machine to stitch pockets between ...

cans of Spam stacked up on shelf - David Mcnew/Getty Images You could probably spot this iconic canned meat a mile away, if only for its distinctive rectangular shape and bright yellow name proudly ...