Alaska’s glacial lakes are growing as glaciers retreat out of basins. These lakes will change desolate glacial rivers into ...

A sudden release of pressure allowed a copper-based compound to superconduct at the highest temperature yet for atmospheric ...

Suspicious cells build up in mice that haven’t given birth, a new study finds. They could help explain a longstanding mystery ...

People think differently about the passage of time based on gestures someone else uses while describing, say, a day’s events or the growth of a seed into a flower, Stanford University psychologist ...

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...

A look inside the brains of extraordinarily sharp elderly people reveals clues about their unusual abilities. Deep in these ...

Scientists created half-Möbius molecules, similar to the Möbius strips common in math classes, but half as twisty. It’s a ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s ...

Tiny, repeating detachments between sole and floor — thousands of times a second — create the distinctive squeak heard on the ...

Lucid dreamers who heard puzzle-linked soundtracks while sleeping were more likely to solve those unsolved problems the next ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...