When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city...

Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in the universe. Scientists believe it makes up most of the mass in the cosmos, yet they have never seen...

For a long time, scientists believed that human-like life was extremely rare in the universe. The “hard steps” theory, proposed in 1983 by...

The mystery of Dark Matter endures. Despite sixty years of observation and research, scientists still haven’t isolated the particle that accounts...

If this is winning, it is less fun than I had hoped.  The confirmation hearings for Jay Bhattacharya as secretary of the National Institutes of...

There’s no question about whether sleep is important for heart and brain health. Study after study has shown that it is. Questions about the...

For nearly 50 years, doctors have known that the drug retinoic acid helps treat neuroblastoma, a type of solid tumor that occurs in children. However,...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it’s so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful tools is something...

Water is essential for life, but when did it first appear in the universe? A new study suggests that water may have formed much earlier than...

Scientists have discovered the oldest and most distant blazar ever seen, named J0410–0139. This powerful object is located 12.9 billion light-years...