The next Moon suit’s most important upgrade may look less like armor and more like long (and fashionable) underwear.

Leonardo da Vinci, A wooden machine for the excavation of a canal (c. 1503) Codex Atlanticus. Credit: Leonardotheka. For more than four centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s largest surviving body of notes ...

Hadrian’s Wall was built to divide worlds. Stretching across northern England, the 73-mile fortification marked the Roman ...

What it revealed was no ordinary patch of bedrock, but something far weirder: a carefully carved inscription of the Lord’s ...

A wearable lens used the retina to reach mood circuits deep in the brain and reverse depression-like changes in mice.

Uveitis occurs when the immune system inflames the uvea, the eye’s middle layer. Symptoms can include blurred vision, pain, redness, and sensitivity to light. Without treatment, the inflammation may ...

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that ...

We’ve all heard some version of this story. Someone’s great-grandfather smoked like a chimney, ate bacon with every meal, and somehow lived to be 96. It’s a comforting anecdote because it suggests ...

Uranus is already the oddball of the solar system. It rolls around the sun tipped almost completely on its side, like a planet that was knocked over and never got back up. Its moons follow along with ...

An example of data collected by a street activity sensor, with mapping of movement by pedestrians, cyclists, and cars at an intersection. Credit: NYC DOT Across New York City, signposts are being ...

The next pandemic virus may already be hiding in a bat, a camel or another animal, mutating until it finds the right doorway into people. For most of modern vaccine history, scientists have had to ...

China says it is testing a prototype nuclear power system designed to be mounted on a truck — a 10-megawatt unit that ...