The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just looks like a small, faint dot—not a fully detailed world. The que ...

Roughly 10 percent of the U.S. population is afflicted with major depressive disorder at any given time, and up to 20 percent ...

A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, University of Michigan researchers have discovered—upending ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives ...

Manuel Endres, professor of physics at Caltech, specializes in finely controlling single atoms using devices known as optical tweezers. He and his colleagues use the tweezers, made of laser light, to ...

Thanks to Mark Rober, you can now take a selfie in space for free.

White holes are theoretical bodies in physics that are basically time-reversed black holes, meaning instead of permanently trapping matter inside themselves, they release it ...

Many atheists consider themselves to be highly rational people who rate evidence and analytical thinking above religion, ...

Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with th ...

Across the globe, water scarcity is no longer a distant concern—it’s a present and growing crisis. Today, more than 2.3 ...

A new study identifying molecules that suppress the heat of chili peppers hints at the possibility of adapting these ...

It’s a question that’s long been the cause of debate: is it better to shower in the morning or at night? Morning shower ...