In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system. These ...

Oak gall wasps and their predators don't have the panache of butterflies, but they're attracting growing interest among both ...

Imagine a whirlpool spinning in a river, or a tornado swirling through the sky. They don't just spin on the spot: they travel ...

The Three-Body Problem isn't just the name of a viral Netflix series or a Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book. It also represents ...

Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a ...

Does the decision to leave the country unite or divide migrant families? A study by Polish researchers shows how parents and ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously ...

In 1917, Sigmund Freud described three "narcissistic insults" that had been caused by science. These were moments of ...

Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively ...

UC San Diego researchers show that paying enforcers to punish makes people less likely to cooperate with others, which has ...

The tongue contains numerous taste buds—tiny sensory organs responsible for detecting taste. Taste buds consist of ...

In 1770, after Captain Cook's Endeavor struck the Great Barrier Reef and was held up for repairs, botanists Joseph Banks and ...