The universe continually reminds us that our understanding of reality remains deeply incomplete, despite the billions invested in cosmic research. Every year brings a new particle or phenomenon that ...

The disease affected millions, but to this day has not been satisfactorily explained. The symptoms were pretty distressing.

Physicists are closing in on a strange, hidden influence that does not fit neatly into the four familiar forces of nature, and the search is reshaping how detectors are built and where they are ...

Geologists have mapped a strange magnetic anomaly in Australia – and in a stunning coincidence, it happens to look remarkably like the continent it lurks beneath. The anomaly seems to feature its own ...

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak is now known to be in the Jupiter family of comets, going from a little inside Jupiter's orbit to almost as far as Earth on its 5.4-year orbit. It is notable for its large ...

Struggling to sleep in strange places? New research might have finally found the answer to why it is difficult, even when ...