In this article, scientists Stewart Edie and Torben Rick take you on a journey through the United States as nature sees it, ...

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Could a quick, painless tear sample someday help doctors monitor changes in the brain before major symptoms appear?

Let's start by revealing that, yes, there really is something bigger than infinity. But to explain this, we first need to take a detour to the tail end of the 18th century. Back then, there was a lot ...

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 ...

Thinking of astronaut food we often imagine floating packets of pre-cooked meals. But as our aim for space missions becomes longer and humans plan to stay on the Moon or even Mars, having access to ...

Many people suffer from the transition from standard (winter) time to daylight saving time (a.k.a. summer time in Europe). If we elect to give up on changing the time twice a year altogether, what ...

An international team of astronomers, led by scientists at the University of Birmingham, has reported the second-ever discovery of a multi-exoplanetary circumbinary system in the peer-reviewed journal ...

Many of us tend to ponder about the universe when looking at the night sky on a clear evening. We all know the type of questions that emerge during these occasions. Interestingly enough, even ...

An international team of astronomers has witnessed the seemingly impossible using NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope. They observed six galaxies in the early universe that are so large that ...

Many of us have experienced moments where we just keep swiping through short videos (or 'shorts') on platforms such as TikTok, YouTube and Facebook trying to kill our boredom, but paradoxically, we ...

Scientists discovered something amazing about fungi: they can maintain cooler temperatures than their surroundings. This phenomenon, known as fungal hypothermia, is not just limited to mushrooms but ...