In April 2016, a Jordanian mother who had lost two daughters to the same neurological disease flew to Mexico with her husband to attempt something that had never been done before.
It comes from a study led by Marius Cautun of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
For decades, the wider scientific community has been operating with a particular puzzle in the field of stellar death.
Correction, September 20, 2026: The headline and opening were revised to identify the measured flavan-3-ol endpoint, the capsule comparator and the eight-person sample, rather than claiming that banana cancelled 84% of berry antioxidants.
In 1966, a young biologist named Lynn Margulis submitted a paper to a scientific journal.
The English expression "once in a blue moon," used as a stand-in for events that occur so infrequently that the speaker has effectively given up on tracking them, has, on the available etymological record, been in use for approximately four hundred years.
Cosmic rays were first discovered in 1912 by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess, who conducted a series of balloon flights into the upper atmosphere and…
The southwestern coast of Sicily is, by the standards of European coastal demography, one of the more densely populated coastlines on the continent.
There is a thought experiment that philosophers have been arguing about since ancient Greece.
Inside Building 87 on Microsoft’s Redmond campus is an anechoic chamber built for precise audio testing.
Navigators tracking NASA's Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft could see something in the data they could not fully account for.
If you spend any time online, you've almost certainly encountered the story.
The record stands. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth.
In October 2002, at the World Space Congress in Houston, the Russian scientist Dimitri Malashenkov presented a paper that corrected the public account of one of the most widely recounted events of the early space age.
On the afternoon of 22 October 2017, a large thunderstorm complex moved across the central United States, extending at its peak from Minnesota down to Texas.
Solar Cycle 25 has already reached its solar maximum period, and a new long-term study of orbital debris points to a practical warning for the satellite age:…
