Most of us think of dentists when our gums are sore, not brain scans. Yet a new study hints that what’s happening along the ...

The human brain, our most complicated organ, has gone through several growth spurts throughout the eons. But about 3000 years ago, something remarkable happened. Instead of the typical continued ...

Advertisements for food products are teeming with food imagery. These visual enticements are often deployed to promote specific food items, banking on their ability to trigger our cravings, for ...

Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

An international team of astronomers uncovered a ring system orbiting a dwarf planet located at the outer edge of our solar system known as Quaoar. Unlike other ring systems, Quaoar's ring orbits at a ...

According to new research, what you eat may be just as important as the type of diet you follow when it comes to protecting your heart. A major new study, which tracked nearly 200,000 people over ...

Have you ever wondered how changing the way we draw the world—using different map projections or even flipping the globe upside-down—can expose hidden biases, challenge traditional views, and reshape ...

Research conducted by scientists from University College London, UEA, and the University of Lyon suggests that people in the countryside commonly develop a better sense of direction than those growing ...

Most of us are familiar with the fact that it is incredibly expensive to transport materials to even relatively close by planets like Mars. As a matter of fact, scientists calculated that transporting ...

Jupiter has 79 known moons, the four largest of which are known as the 'Galilean moons'. These four worlds are among the most fascinating in our entire solar system. In this article, we will attempt ...

Thinking of astronaut food we often imagine floating packets of pre-cooked meals. But as our aim for space missions becomes longer and humans plan to stay on the Moon or even Mars, having access to ...

Traditionally, forest restoration projects have focused on achieving a single goal, such as capturing carbon, supporting local communities, or protecting wildlife. However it turns out that integrated ...