For billions of years, an ancient star cluster has been slowly unraveling, leaving behind a delicate ribbon of stars. And now it’s finally giving up its secrets. Discovered by an international team of ...

In a study conducted at the Universities of Jyväskylä and Eastern Finland, more screen time since childhood was associated with better cognitive processing in adolescence. According to one o ...

An international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has captured an unprecedented view of a dying star’s remains in the act of being recycled. A striking new ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Neuroscientists have long assumed that when a brain region becomes more active, more blood flows to it. That assumption is the entire basis of functional magnetic resonance ...

Researchers say a spike in temperatures during an ice age 304 million years ago could inform what climate scientists are ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz and the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a miniature microscope that allows scientists to observe and activate individual brain cells du ...

I nearly failed organic chemistry. That is not how these essays usually open, but it is the truest place to start. I was a student at Andhra Christian College in Guntur, India, and the lecturer's pace ...

To coincide with the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Japan launched a groundbreaking bullet train that inspired countries around the ...

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Scientists—and dog lovers—have long known that dogs are remarkably good at interpreting our laughs, frowns, and tears. But ...

A river has my heart. It’s not the austere, black Thames winding through London, where I was born, but a lazy green one 5,000 miles away, where I spent my adolescence: the Blanco River in Texas. My ...

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