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 ...

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 ...

"It’s a fleam, most likely used for bleeding horses — not people, where a thumb lancet tended to be used. Bloodletting was as ...

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

As her debut UK solo exhibition continues at London's Design Museum, the designer welcomes us into her hypnotic Hackney ...

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, ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

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 ...