In this article, scientists Stewart Edie and Torben Rick take you on a journey through the United States as nature sees it, ...

Could a quick, painless tear sample someday help doctors monitor changes in the brain before major symptoms appear?

Every so often, something from beyond our Solar System passes close enough for astronomers to study. Most of the time, these ...

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.

Scientists continuously attempt to devise solutions to the wide range of problems the world is facing. One of the problems is the fact that a considerable part of the world does not have access to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of us find it hard to balance a demanding workweek and personal life with a good and regular sleep schedule. As a result, sleep deprivation is a common occurrence. Luckily there is the weekend ...

Japanese astronomer Tomonori Totani from the University of Tokyo proposed a novel idea to expand on the existing range of methods to search for extraterrestrial life focusing on space dust that finds ...

Have you ever wondered how animals adapt to urban life, with its traffic jams and busy streets? A fascinating observation by researcher Dr. Vladimir Dinets sheds light on how some birds might not only ...