Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

Microplastics are everywhere—in our water, food, and even the air we breathe. A new scientific review highlights a growing concern: microplastics and nanoplastics are accumulating in human brain ...

A team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Breakthrough Listen, and global institutions has used deep learning on a dataset of 820 nearby stars and found eight new signals of interest. Despite ...

During their research, the scientists observed that the post-mortem brains of Alzheimer's patients contained an excess of an enzyme known as S-acyltransferase. Higher concentrations of this enzyme ...

A recent social media trend involving taping one's mouth shut at night to prevent mouth breathing has sparked considerable debate. But according to new research, this popular sleep hack may be less ...

Research conducted by scientists from University College London, UEA, and the University of Lyon suggests that people in the countryside commonly develop a better sense of direction than those growing ...

It turns out that one of the keys to better images from space is making things really, really black. Scientists developed a new kind of ultra-black coating that could make future telescopes and ...

For most of astronomy’s history, the death of a massive star has been a loud event. A supernova flares so brightly it can briefly outshine an entire galaxy. But a new study describes something far ...

Flamingos in East Africa are facing an unexpected threat that could disrupt their populations and the ecological balance of the region. A recent study by King's College London has unearthed surprising ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have solved a longstanding riddle, dating back over 150 years, on how dormant bacterial spores detect nutrients in their environment and quickly come back to life ...

Taking inspiration from the remarkable abilities of human skin, scientists at Stanford University have made a significant breakthrough in synthetic skin technology. The researchers have developed a ...

Advertisements for food products are teeming with food imagery. These visual enticements are often deployed to promote specific food items, banking on their ability to trigger our cravings, for ...