If that scab on your elbow is still lingering weeks later, you’re not imagining things—your body is just really slow at healing.
According to a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, humans take up to three times…
If that scab on your elbow is still lingering weeks later, you’re not imagining things—your body is just really slow at healing.
According to a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, humans take up to three times…
Scientists have long been fascinated by the potential end of human civilization on Earth. Among these minds, few were as brilliant as Stephen Hawking, whose predictions about planetary doom have gained significant attention from major…
A Tatooine-like world with a key difference from the desert planet in “Star Wars” has been serendipitously discovered orbiting not two stars, but a pair of brown dwarfs. What’s more, this wacky planet doesn’t orbit around the brown dwarfs’…
An astronaut who temporarily made history for spending 340 consecutive days in space had a major realisation about Earth whilst he was up there for so long.
NASA’s Scott Kelly conducted the longest single spaceflight by an American at the time of…
FILE – Giant tabular icebergs are surrounded by ice floe drift in Vincennes Bay on January 11, 2008 in the Australian Antarctic Territory. (Photo by Torsten Blackwood – Pool/Getty Images)
A surprising shift is underway at the bottom…
If you took high school biology, you probably learned about cell division: a crucial process in all life forms officially called mitosis. For over one hundred years, students have learned that during…
In the fields of archaeology and paleontology, many significant discoveries are made purely by chance: while doing outdoor tasks that involve digging, people stumble on surprise finds.
This is exactly what happened recently to Elliot, a…
What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe — and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a giant computer?
In a new paper published in the journal AIP Advances, University of Portsmouth physicist…
SpaceX’s latest static fire for the second-stage ship due to fly on Flight 9 might have been less than perfect. Footage from local media shows that the firm lit up several of the rocket’s engines at its test site in Texas…