A towering inferno, hundreds of feet tall, burned above the Caspian Sea on Sunday (July 4) after a massive explosion in Azerbaijan’s oil and gas fields....
Psilocybin, the active psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, has some curious effects on the human brain. There’s the obvious, of course – hallucinations – but of...
Sometimes unhelpful (or just plain wrong) health advice sticks in our brains. For example, you don’t necessarily need to drink eight glasses of water every day, and...
The Sun appears to be waking up from the quiet period of its 11-year cycle. On 3 July 2021, at 14:29 UTC (10:29 EDT), our wild...
For many people, summer vacation can’t come soon enough – especially for the half of Americans who canceled their summer plans last year due to the...
Some of the best robots are inspired by nature. Now, engineers have developed a small, scurrying bot based on the humble cockroach – with almost as much...
Seven Viking tombs holding well-preserved skeletons, including possible twin infants, have been discovered in the Swedish town of Sigtuna. The archaeologists discovered the 1,000-year-old remains of...
As humans, we like to think we have some pretty unique traits in the animal kingdom. Language enables us to communicate efficiently with one another. Culture...
In October 2019, I set sail with a team of scientists aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel John P. Tully in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off...
Scientists have invented a product that can encourage tooth enamel to grow back, which means we could finally have a game-changing way to treat dental cavities....