The language we learn growing up seems to leave a lasting, biological imprint on our brains. German and Arabic native speakers have different connection strengths in specific parts of the brain’s ...

In a book about his travels in Africa published in 1907, British explorer Arnold Henry Savage Landor recounted witnessing an impromptu meal that his companions relished but that he found unimaginably ...

During its infancy, Jupiter may have glowed about 10 thousand times brighter than it does today, which may explain why its ...

Astronomers spotted both a fast radio burst and gravitational waves from a cosmic smashup in the same part of the sky and at ...

Some Renaissance artists created eggs-quisite paintings by adding yolks to oil paints, which may have helped add texture and ...

New experiments confirm that complex patterns in plants emerge from a model proposed by mathematician Alan Turing.

Barn owls on volcanic islands tend to have redder plumage than those on nonvolcanic islands, possibly due to an influx of ...

TRAPPIST-1b is hotter than astronomers expected, suggesting there’s no atmosphere to transport heat around the planet.

And now more and more studies are finding that microplastics, defined as plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters across, are ...

After half a century, mathematicians succeed in finding an ‘einstein,’ a shape that forms a tiled pattern that never repeats.

Repeated structures in the ghost catfish’s muscles separate white light that passes through their bodies into different ...

But mathematician Elena Giorgi of Columbia University studies black holes in a different way. “Black holes are mathematical ...