History shows we often dismiss what we don’t yet understand. Here’s why stigmatizing today’s uncomfortable questions may be holding humanity back.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the ...

After more than 50 years of theory and speculation, time reflections, a bizarre and elusive phenomenon, have been observed ...

An extra stage has been identified for the first time that helps explain why ice can have a liquid layer at the surface even ...

Long before modern science explained the phenomenon, ancient cultures recognized the solstice as a moment of renewal.

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Researchers found a way to harness the fundamental properties of triboelectrification, which most people think of it as ...

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart ...

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Antarctica - the polar explorer whose classified 1947 diary described impossible temperate valleys, disc-shaped aircraft, and warnings from mysterious humanoid figures.

A joint team from UOsaka has uncovered the core principles of the loss maximization in rotor-driven gas-liquid two-phase ...

Two exhibitions on view in New York delve into artists' long-standing fascination with the unknown, and what it says about ...