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Socially Awkward People Have Thrived Through History Many people experience social awkwardness from time to time, but for some, it happens much more often. They accidentally say the wrong thing, miss social cues, or are simply overly shy at parti...
NASA's broadcast of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has won an Emmy Award for Excellence in Production Technology. At the 76th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards on Dec. 4, in New York City, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announce...
Ramanujan's Timeless Formulas Unlock Modern Physics More than a century ago, legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote down a set of 17 short formulas that could calculate the digits of pi with incredible accuracy using very few st...
Student teams competed in the 2025 Invention Challenge at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Dec. 5. The annual event pits middle and high school teams against each other as they try to get handmade devices to accomplish a specific task. For ...
People who frequently include foods and beverages rich in polyphenols, such as tea, coffee, berries, cocoa, nuts, whole grains and olive oil, may experience better heart health over time. A team from King's College London reported that individuals w...
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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Second Image of Comet 3I/ATLAS The Hubble Space Telescope has captured another stunning image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it races through our solar system at an incredible speed of 130,000 miles per hour...
Seismology Unlocks the Secrets of Soil It felt like a breakthrough moment. After years of struggling with the complexities of soil, George Monbiot and a team of researchers may have stumbled upon a revolutionary new approach - using seismology to...
U.S. Introduces First Female Crash Test Dummy to Close Decades-Long Safety Gap In a move hailed as decades overdue, the U.S. Department of Transportation introduced the country's first crash test dummy modeled on female anatomy. The new model, ca...
Fossils can reveal a lot about the animals that lived millions of years ago, but rarely do they depict the exact cause of an animal's death. However, a 120-million-year-old bird specimen housed at China's Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature may be the e...
Writing may seem like just another mundane, ordinary task. However, research shows that translating thoughts and feelings into words can calm stress, sharpen emotional awareness, and help you navigate life's challenges with more clarity and confidenc...
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Sometimes, geothermal hot spots are obvious, marked by geysers and hot springs on the planet's surface. But in other places, they're obscured thousands of feet underground. Now, AI could help uncover these hidden pockets of potential power. A startu...
Around 25 million Americans have rare genetic diseases, and many struggle with a lack of effective treatments and clear diagnoses. Researchers have looked to the human genome for answers, but up to 70% of patients still lack a clear genetic explanati...
NASA's next major observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, has now been fully assembled. On November 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the telescope at the largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Gr...
Unlike our eyes and ears, which come in pairs, our nostrils may not seem dramatically different from each other. However, the fact that we have two nostrils, rather than one large hole, plays a vital role in our overall health and sensory experience....
Fever, aching limbs and a runny nose -- as winter returns, so too does the flu. The disease is triggered by influenza viruses, which enter our body through droplets and then infect vulnerable cells. A research team from Switzerland and Japan has tak...
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Astronomers Discover One of the Largest Rotating Structures in the Universe Astronomers have identified an extraordinary cosmic structure - a massive, spinning filament containing a chain of 14 galaxies located 140 million light-years from Earth....
Infamous 3I/ATLAS Comet Covered in Ice Volcanoes, Surprising Astronomers As comet 3I/ATLAS continues its journey through our solar system, scientists are still learning about this special space rock. It is only the second interstellar object ever...
Hubble Seeks Clusters in 'Lost Galaxy' The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, located approximately 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy, nicknamed the 'Lost...
Goodbye, Finger Pricks? Diabetes Patients Could Monitor Glucose with Lightwaves A new, noninvasive blood-glucose monitoring system may allow people with diabetes to finally ditch their painful finger pricks and under-the-skin sensors. Although th...
Select walls at NASA's Johnson Space Center have been transformed into works of art. Each piece reflects creativity, collaboration, and the spirit of discovery. Painted by Texas students, the murals honor the legacy of the International Space Station...
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Early Earth's Sky May Have Created the First Ingredients for Life Earth's ancient sky may have played a larger role in the beginnings of life than scientists once believed. According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academ...
Checking whether fish is fresh has traditionally meant relying on appearance and smell. Clear eyes, bright gills, and a clean scent usually signal freshness, while cloudy eyes or a foul odor are seen as warnings. But these visible and sensory signs o...