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

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

Every so often, something from beyond our Solar System passes close enough for astronomers to study. Most of the time, these ...

A team of scientists at Northwestern University has developed a new method to create carbon-negative materials using seawater, electricity, and carbon dioxide (CO₂). This new process not only locks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever asked yourself why nearly all familiar planets have a round shape and not, say, the shape of a cylinder or a cube? Interesting fact: planets appear perfectly round to the eye, but in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few of the deeper returning questions people engage with in conversations and discussions about cosmology relate to what happened before the big bang and what instigated the big bang in the first ...