Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said co-author Jack Livingston. At the same time, perspective plays a trick on observers ...

A team of scientists at King’s College London thinks there might be another way. They’ve found that keratin — the same ...

The “Herring Lassies,” also known as “Herring Girls” or “Scots Fisher Lassies,” represented a substantial and dynamic female workforce that moved around and followed the herring. They came from the ...

But between the Roman era and the first sustained arrival of Africans, most enslaved, during the Tudor era (early 16th ...

In the lexicon of economic afflictions, “stagflation” is one of the bad ones. The term (a portmanteau of “stagnation” and ...

Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how ...

This can skew ideas about what is “normal”. For example, one study found men believe the average penis measures 15.8 ...

Keersten Fitzgerald is a GP and a lecturer in the General Practice Clinical School at the University of Sydney. Keersten has ...

PelV-1’s story began at Station ALOHA, a long-term monitoring site in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Scientists ...

A new study from the University of Edinburgh has found that cats with dementia develop brain changes strikingly similar to ...

Fifty years on, Vietnam is still reckoning with the long-term ecological toll of U.S. warfare—a grim warning as Israel and ...

The encoded poem is called “Orpheus,” opening with the line “Any style/of life is prim.” When triggered, the microbe ...