A weird 20-legged machine could change how scientists think about the ideal robot form. For decades, roboticists have been ...

If you're taking a day trip to the Sahara Desert in North Africa, you're going to want to bring a lot of water and plenty of sunscreen. But if you're planning to stay the night, then you better bring ...

Researchers in Japan have created a device that promises to boost computer processing speeds, without generating massive amounts of additional heat.

Iran is experiencing "water bankruptcy" that stems from decades of broken water governance and aggressive policies, and the ...

West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice ...

Researchers have built a miniaturized microcomb-driven terahertz wireless communication system that's 90 times smaller than conventional chips to deliver record-breaking data-transfer speeds at ...

The rocket explosion, a contender for the largest in American history, is a significant setback for Jeff Bezos and NASA.

Radio astronomer Emma Chapman explains why the radio view of the universe is so crucial to space exploration, astronomy, and ...

Is my brain wired to never see a ghost? A psychologist on three factors that make a paranormal experience more likely ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Special eye drops containing photosynthetic machinery from spinach leaves have helped combat dry eye, a new mouse experiment reveals.

Hidden in the night sky, just above the hump of Taurus, is a giant crystal ball that shows both the past and the future. This is the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514). To look at this orb's gauzy, white ...