So many comets have failed to live up to predictions that many people have become cynical about them, so why does this happen ...

Let’s start with arguably the simplest fact about this new year: 2025 is a perfect square. It’s equal to 45 × 45, meaning ...

“It takes 66 days […] on average to form a new habit after the first time the new action is performed, but this can vary from ...

Millions of people owe their lives to a treatment we’ve never completely understood; changing that could save even more.

“Approximately 1 million US adults will develop dementia annually by 2060,” the authors conclude. “Policies that enhance prevention and healthy aging are urgent public health priorities for reducing ...

A nimals and their offspring can either look like copy and paste versions, or have radically different appearances from each other. While clearing up some debris on the seafloor, NOAA got more than ...

T he European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and able to scan the sky, so it has decided to nominally end science operations ...

It has previously been posited that this love of the macabre stems from morbid curiosity, or that it could allow people to experience intense emotions lacking in their lives and escape their own ...

Since the late 1950s, researchers have been convinced the skull belonged to the Arsinoë IV, but it seems they were wrong.

Cricket frogs ( Acris crepitans) in the family Ranidae have long been known to be able to traverse the water's surface, ...

For example: physics traditionally tells us that all particles can be classified into one of two types, either bosons or ...