Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between technologies designed to restore sight and touch, opening the door to a more unified approach for people with severe vision loss or paralysis.

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 ...

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 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 ...

A recent social media trend involving taping one's mouth shut at night to prevent mouth breathing has sparked considerable debate. But according to new research, this popular sleep hack may be less ...

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 ...

In the quest to explore and inhabit space and other worlds, one of the largest challenges astronauts face is having enough reliable energy. It turns out that simple solution might literally be at ...

Have you ever wondered if there's a way to make plastic disappear after it's no longer needed? Researchers at the University of California San Diego might have found an answer. They developed a new ...

How long you live might depend more on where you live than how wealthy you are—even if you're among America's richest. New research from Brown University reveals surprising insights into why Americans ...

A recent discovery by astronomers Sebastian Pineda and Jackie Villadsen suggests that a planet in another solar system, YZ Ceti b, may have a magnetic field, similar to Earth's. They published their ...

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 ...

Jupiter has 79 known moons, the four largest of which are known as the 'Galilean moons'. These four worlds are among the most fascinating in our entire solar system. In this article, we will attempt ...