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

By feeding plants with energy and CO₂ from decomposing trash, the dome turns a landfill into an unlikely food source.

Image in Creative Commons. In 1967, Hungarian scientist Endre Mester tried to cure skin cancer in mice using a low-powered ruby laser. He failed to stop ...

A newly described African species in the magic mushroom family confirms its evolutionary origin. Psilocybe ochraceocentrata is found growing on cattle dung in the grasslands of southern Africa and ...

“Pre-workout supplements, which often contain high levels of caffeine and stimulant-like ingredients, have become increasingly popular among teenagers and young adults seeking to improve exercise ...

Researchers found a magnetic star core acting as a high speed engine to power a record breaking luminous supernova.

Other, less enthusiastic teachers simply give up and choose to focus on the children who respond well to math classes. But primary school teachers could do well to read about the latest brain imaging ...

LeCun in 2018. Image via Wiki Commons. Just a few years ago, Yann LeCun appeared to be the right man at exactly the right place. LeCun, who famously pioneered the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in 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 ...

The Widmanstätten pattern also hints at how the meteorite was processed by the ancient Egyptians. The cross-hatched texture, ...

This is our biological age, a measure of how much our cells have actually weathered over time. It’s one of the reasons why ...