At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

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Zhu Junqiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and dean of the newly established School of Space ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Engineers at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei province, have developed a breakthrough ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science” ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Philosophers are generally expected to display wisdom and calm in the face of existential questions. I am just not one of those philosophers. I spent 30 years racing away from these thoughts by ...

Researchers documented the activity of neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the ...