Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting carbon-13 into nitrogen-13 inside the SNO+ detector. By tracking two faint ...

The star of Eyes Wide Shut and The Mummy reportedly has lines he won't cross, even if it means he doesn't get to shoot a ...

When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite ...

Why do we knock on wood? Explore 7 strange superstitions and the psychology behind why we believe them, from black cats to ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Leading efforts to translate research into treatments at the NIH had felt, for physician Josh Fessel, like the way he could ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

A strange, new species of ribbon worm, Pararosa vigarae, stretches its body like an accordion, capable of shrinking to ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...