The new short from documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist Carin Leong explores the transient nature of humankind’s ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Humans can ‘feel’ hidden objects under sand from 2.76 inches away, revealing the surprising power of remote touch.

Surprisingly, the magic of snowflakes often begins with dust in the air. All it takes is for a cold drop of water to freeze ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of ...

Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined ...

China's Tiangong space station has been the setting for an innovative experiment on lithium-ion batteries, conducted by the three astronauts of the ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

All of which has yielded crisp views of many different Martian scenes, including the remnants of gaseous eruptions and impact ...

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The ...

Despite being 95% desert, Saudi Arabia imports construction-grade sand because desert sand is too smooth for concrete, forcing reliance on angular river and sea sand for mega projects nationwide plans ...