For most of us, “sound” means the hum of a refrigerator, the rumble of traffic, or the bass line of a song. But what happens when sound dips below the threshold of ordinary hearing, into the realm of ...

When they’re destroyed, as in injuries or autoimmune diseases like neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, the brain’s ...

Stunning new Sun images reveal a long-predicted solar phenomenon.

Neandertals were stronger than modern humans, with large muscles, heavy brow ridges, and squat tooth roots. The pituitary ...

One of Pluto’s most striking landmarks is Sputnik Planitia, a massive glacier filled with frozen nitrogen ice. It covers more ...

Movement stability decreases with decreasing gravity. It gets harder to control complex tasks using both hands autonomously. Instead of maintaining the intention patterns, participants often drifted ...

Nitrogen gas (𝑁2) is everywhere; it makes up nearly 80% of Earth’s atmosphere, but its triple bond is so strong that most ...

Modern gadgets, from smartphones to medical sensors, depend on materials that can mediate and manipulate electrical energy at ...

Researchers from Drexel University and Penn State University have developed a new hydrogel and can be used to produce durable ...

The “ShiftLens” design and fabrication system creates objects that change their surface appearance based on user interactions.

GW Orionis, a triple-star system boasting bizarre rings of dust misaligned with their orbits high in the constellation Orion, has captivated astronomers for years. Rather than lying in the same flat ...

A false-color electron microscope image shows the devices. Using the new scalable fabrication technique, researchers fabricated more than 1,000 devices using sub-nanometer molecular layers. Credit: ...