Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of ...

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...

When a pregnant woman had her blood sampled back in 1972, doctors discovered it was mysteriously missing a surface molecule ...

On Wednesday, Mukuku Village in Kenya got an unexpected visitor from space. At about 3 p.m. local time, a large metallic ring ...

Stimulating either of a pair of crucial nerves that carry messages from the brain to several major organs could be an ...

Throughout recorded history, our hair and nails played an important role in signifying who we are and our social status.

A review on the health effects of microplastics has some scientists suspecting the worst. The tiny synthetic particles that ...

British researchers have unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be the biggest in the UK.

The virus responsible for the 'stomach flu' or 'winter vomiting disease' is causing more trouble than usual this winter in ...

New research shows that the reservoirs of magma that fuel the supervolcano 's wild outbursts seem to be shifting to the ...

When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020, scientists ...

Here's a new perspective to motivate yourself (or someone else) to give up smoking: every cigarette smoked can take 20 ...