Discovered by an amateur mathematician in 2022, this strange construct can tile an infinite surface without repeating. But ...

A private spacecraft launched to boost the decaying orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory is now suffering from potentially ...

Many of these structures date to around C.E. 100–300, during the time of the Aquiry civilization, and may have been used for ...

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a ...

Smell can bring back vivid childhood memories—the so-called “Proust’s madeleine” phenomenon—and neuroscientists now think ...

A newly discovered change in ribosomal RNA makes protein production more precise, potentially safeguarding these cephalopods’ ...

New work explains how avocado trees coordinate a complex reproductive strategy, switching every day between male and female ...

If starry galaxies are like bright ships on a cosmic sea, then supermassive black holes are like their dark anchors. Weighing ...

Physicists, mathematicians and philosophers have been exploring the possibility of going forward to the future or back to the ...

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck just south of the city of Kumamoto on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Tuesday ...

The European continent is facing a dual reckoning this summer—extreme heat is killing thousands and draining its rivers, ...