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

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

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

Many of you may remember the interstellar object ʻOumuamua (Hawaiian for 'messenger') that visited our solar system in 2017. The object was unlike anything we had seen before, as it was the first ...

Planetary rovers are often imagined as bold explorers crossing alien landscapes. In reality, they work under tight limits. On Mars, even a simple instruction can take minutes to arrive, and every move ...

Most of us think of sitting as one big category. Too much of it is bad, and that is the end of the story. But new research suggests the picture may be more complicated than that. The real question may ...

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 ...

A box of bones does not usually look like a plot twist. But when paleontologists began studying a set of unusually small fossils from Spain, they realized they were dealing with something that did not ...

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 ...

Staying cool during hot summer days usually means relying on energy-intensive air conditioners. However, new materials created using machine learning and artificial intelligence promise to change this ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester and The Australian National University have created a new molecule that may soon enable ultra-compact hard drives (the size of a postage stamp) by allowing ...

It is generally believed that people become gradually less sociable as they grow older. Is this actually the case, and if so, what causes this change? A new study published in the peer-reviewed ...