REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is coated by a thin watery layer. Scientists generally agree that this ...

A research team has managed to “bottle” a highly reactive carbene in water, overturning a major assumption in chemistry.

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as ...

The "old friends" hypothesis was proposed by Graham Rook in 2003 as an alternative to or refinement of the hygiene hypothesis, originally brought forward by Strachan in 1989 as an explanation for the ...

When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turned toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in August 2025, astronomers were looking for more than just an unusual object; they were seeking validation for a ...

Control theory is a branch of mathematics and engineering, which defines the conditions needed for a system to maintain a controlled output in the face of input variation. Classically developed for ...

A model quantifies the environmental footprint of wearable health-care electronics and identifies strategies to reduce their environmental toll. Privacy in the age of ...