When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Why do we knock on wood? Explore 7 strange superstitions and the psychology behind why we believe them, from black cats to ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...