Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these...
There are no gender differences in the brain when it comes to maths processing ability, a new study has confirmed. This could...
Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have even infected science – at least the quantum...
It took just 2 1/2 hours for the Titanic to sink after it collided with an iceberg in 1912.Before the disaster, the...
Immersed in a ‘drug soup‘ of pharmaceutical pollutants, aquatic wildlife acts in ways that puts them at risk of becoming an easily...
CHICAGO — It’s a strange mash-up, but it works: Algae living inside tadpoles’ blood vessels can pump out oxygen for nearby oxygen-starved...
Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first...
Flame retardants are going green. Using compounds from plants, researchers are concocting a new generation of flame retardants, which one day could...
In a different reality, space might smell like almonds. After all, scientists surveying the chemicals in the cosmos have found benzonitrile; just...
When things heat up, most solids expand as higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate more dramatically, necessitating more space. But some solid...