Hair is pretty tricky. Unlike almost every other organ in the human body, which finishes its development in the womb, the ...

In the 1950s, a passenger in Leeds, England, boarded a bus and paid their fare with a funny-looking coin. For the bus driver, it was a nuisance: a dodgy, seemingly foreign coin that wouldn’t clear the ...

Drugs originally designed to treat diabetes and obesity are reshaping medicine in unforeseen ways. Their impact on public health is really unprecedented in modern times, perhaps only upstaged by ...

“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

The lasers alone would cost around one trillion dollars and the technology to create a nanocraft does not yet exist.

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

AI-powered digital assistants can do many complex tasks on their own. But who takes responsibility when they cause harm?

For a lot of people into fitness, pre-workout has become part of going to the gym. It is meant to help them feel more alert and push harder during exercise. But a new study suggests that the boost may ...

In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour (15,000 miles per hour). The collision was deliberate and the asteroid ...

When a second-grader consistently gives the wrong answer on a basic math quiz, educators usually assume the student just isn’t good with numbers. The standard solution for these struggling students ...

In December 2024, the ATLAS astronomical survey detected a distant flash of light. It was a supernova, the explosive death of a massive star, located far, far away, roughly a billion light-years away.

The dinosaur lineage has provided us with some of the most truly terrifying animals to ever walk the planet. But we eventually learned that all birds are actually theropod dinosaurs. Looking at ...