It’s not just a mood—it’s in your blood. New research shows that your DNA determines whether you feel that "telltale tingle" from music and literature.

Turtles are able to grasp that the same object seen from different angles is not a different object, an important trait for ...

Lise Meitner, a brilliant physicist, was instrumental in understanding nuclear fission but was overlooked for the Nobel Prize ...

For many critics of religion, particularly within atheist circles, the Big Bang theory is frequently presented as a decisive scientific evidence against belief in God and the biblical doctrine of ...

New analysis by Francesca Capel and Nadine Bourriche narrows possible sources of the Amaterasu cosmic ray, suggesting nearby galaxies like M82 rather than the Local Void.

The total energy of the ball consists of its potential energy (related to position) plus its kinetic energy (related to motion). To zero out both components, you would have to give a precise value to ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them ...

An elephant's trunk, despite its size and thick skin, can perform surprisingly delicate and agile movements, enough to grasp a small peanut or a crispy snack without crushing it. The secret to this se ...

Work on nuclear physics in the early twentieth century moved across borders, institutes and private letters. Lise Meitner was ...

Some of history’s greatest scientific minds didn’t dismiss God, they wrestled with the idea in ways that may challenge modern assumptions. What they discovered goes deeper than equations and beyond ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...