A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

Working with 10 mice, they monitored roughly 8,000 neurons in the primary visual cortex of each animal while the mice watched ...

Schematic of a proposed space mining setup that literally bags asteroids. Credit: TransAstra. The aerospace industry has a new, highly ambitious (some might say crazy) plan for securing off-world ...

U.S. military action is disrupting key energy suppliers, putting China’s reliance on foreign sources to the test. Even as Beijing strengthens domestic capacity and diversifies imports, the crisis ...

Divers have found a medieval metropolis is sitting at the bottom of a mountain lake in Kyrgyzstan. The city, currently on the bottom of Lake Issyk-Kul is remarkably well-preserved, complete with brick ...

If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000 years ago, even a small cut could be deadly. Without sterile bandages or antibiotics, ...

What happens to a cigarette but when it’s thrown away? A new study offers an unsettling answer: not much; at least not in the way you’d hope. After tracking cigarette filters for nearly a decade under ...

One of the hottest classes of drugs in the world owes part of its origin story to a weird desert lizard with a venomous bite ...

Dick Van Dyke, the legendary American actor and comedian who starred in classics such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang ...

The legendary Dick Van Dyke credits his incredible longevity to one particular habit. Science says he’s right by Jolanta ...

Today, the Sahara is a 3.6-million-square-mile expanse of blistering sand, sweeping dunes, and barren rock. It defines the very concept of an inhospitable wasteland. Yet, hidden deep within the arid ...