A brilliant star in our nearest galactic neighbor didn’t go out with a bang, it simply faded from sight, leaving scientists ...

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 ...

Since its relatively humble beginnings in 1998, when it was first introduced to consumers, Wi-Fi has become a familiar name in almost every household, office building, or even coffee place. Although ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost a billion tires get dumped each year, and a significant portion of them get burned or end up in landfills. Scientists at the William Marsh Rice University in Texas created an optimized ...

An international team of astronomers uncovered a ring system orbiting a dwarf planet located at the outer edge of our solar system known as Quaoar. Unlike other ring systems, Quaoar's ring orbits at a ...

Imagine peering into the night sky with a powerful telescope and seeing galaxies scattered across the cosmic landscape. Some are so distant that their light has been travelling for over 13 billion ...

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 ...

We've all had those moments—pressing play on another episode of our favourite show, setting the alarm for an early gym session, or just tossing and turning in bed. Though they might appear as minor ...

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 ...

Have you ever woken up with a vivid memory of a dream, while someone else remembers nothing at all? A new study by researchers at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, in collaboration with the ...