On a warm summer afternoon, when your throat runs dry, reaching for a glass of water might feel like the most natural thing ...

The system is set up to only strike targets flying under one meter per second. Mosquitoes fly, on average, 1 to 1.5 kilometers per hour — well below the device’s cutoff of 1 meter per second.

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

The rediscovered lines also give rare voice to Babylon’s women, especially its priestesses. It describes them as devout and ...

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

To simulate menstrual fluid, the team used glycerol, a thick liquid similar in consistency to blood. In both pre-flight and ...

In one of Stanford’s labs, a roll of Scotch tape spins under a motorized roller. To the untrained eye, it’s an ordinary strip ...

For more than a century, folklore and cartoons have warned us: eat cheese before bed, and you’re in for a strange night. Winsor McCay’s 1904 comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend famously turned the ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.

Slow-motion review showed three distinct bouts: 10 seconds, twenty-six seconds, and eighteen seconds. Between bouts the ...

Nature’s least loved animals are dying fast. This could make the environment stinky and pathogens unstoppable.