Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between technologies designed to restore sight and touch, opening the door to a more unified approach for people with severe vision loss or paralysis.

Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester and The Australian National University have created a new molecule that may soon enable ultra-compact hard drives (the size of a postage stamp) by allowing ...

Thinking of astronaut food we often imagine floating packets of pre-cooked meals. But as our aim for space missions becomes longer and humans plan to stay on the Moon or even Mars, having access to ...

Let's start by revealing that, yes, there really is something bigger than infinity. But to explain this, we first need to take a detour to the tail end of the 18th century. Back then, there was a lot ...

A few of the deeper returning questions people engage with in conversations and discussions about cosmology relate to what happened before the big bang and what instigated the big bang in the first ...

NASA's InSight spacecraft has given us a peek into Mars like never before! Before it wrapped up its mission last December, it sent back some fascinating data, now published in the peer-reviewed ...

A team of scientists at Northwestern University has developed a new method to create carbon-negative materials using seawater, electricity, and carbon dioxide (CO₂). This new process not only locks ...

Driving while distracted is something we've all heard warnings about, but a new study shows just how often teens are looking at their phones while driving, and the numbers are alarming. It turns out ...

Have you ever asked yourself why nearly all familiar planets have a round shape and not, say, the shape of a cylinder or a cube? Interesting fact: planets appear perfectly round to the eye, but in ...

A recent social media trend involving taping one's mouth shut at night to prevent mouth breathing has sparked considerable debate. But according to new research, this popular sleep hack may be less ...

Among many innovative concepts exists the idea of solar power satellites - massive orbiting structures designed to harvest the sun's energy from space and transmit it to Earth in the form of microwave ...