There's a strange, unexplained feature of the Cosmic Microwave Background which seems to be aligned with the Solar System, ...

A Siberian squirrel mother feeds her babies to build their strength throughout the winter. But once Spring arrives, these youngsters must take to the skies themselves.

A manned mission to Mars presents a huge array of challenges for scientists and explorers to figure out. Chief among them: how to keep humans sane and relatively content on the isolati ...

This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horiz ...

In 2023, the ostensibly authoritative World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that non-sugar sweeteners “not be used as a ...

You'd think that there are some features that, once an animal group evolved to have them, could never really go away, right?

The flat earther community seems to be growing, and it's beginning to worry me. It's not just a question of lacking science ...

Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a volcano, making hot springs and geysers a natural part of the landscape. These ...

At the end of the Cold War, many thinkers optimistically predicted that globalization would cause societies’ social values to ...

Changes in personality following a heart transplant have been noted pretty much ever since transplants began. In one case, a ...

In the realm of medicine, blockbuster drugs regularly attract popular attention, but it is basic, inexpensive treatments that ...

There is still so much we don’t understand about the origin of life on Earth. The definition of life itself is a source of ...