In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast-moving body using the world's most powerful telescopes. It was found to be ...

When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For decades, scientists have hypothesized that one of these pathways, the ventral ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the number ...

W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Using imagery can help people keep their memories vivid for longer, but for those with PTSD, a strong sense of imagery could ...

"The three-dimensional world of ordinary experience—the universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, houses, boulders, and ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen shows that our brain deals with different forms of visual uncertainty during movements in distinct ways. Depending on the type of uncertainty, ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution. These faint, dusty galaxies were discovered using the deepest ...

On Sunday night, the nation was treated to a 90-minute reprieve from Tariff-Palooza when HBO aired the feverishly anticipated ...

Hypochlorous acid is safe enough to spray in your eyes yet more effective than bleach. Why isn’t it everywhere?