NASA announced that it is putting together an independent team of researchers this fall to study sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, the updated term now used to refer to UFOs. The space agency […]

Thanks to advances in neuroscience and microelectronics engineering, we finally have a tool that will let us begin to reverse engineer the wonders of the brain. People often think of technology as applied science, but […]

Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors. When it comes to conventional machine learning, computer scientists have […]

In the jungle of Suriname, the German-born Swiss naturalist, entomologist and botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian discovered insect metamorphosis. This animation celebrates her many notable contributions to the natural sciences in an age when such […]

Imagine if we could turn back the clock on age-related illnesses by reprogramming our cells to be younger? In a recent Nature Aging paper, Genentech and Salk Institute scientists show that cellular reprogramming techniques safely […]

Researchers at Texas A&M believe that algal biofuels could reduce carbon emissions, mitigate climate change, alleviate petroleum dependency and transform the bio-economy. Professor Joshua Yuan said: “The commercialisation of algal biofuel has been hindered by […]

UFO sightings are “frequent and continuing,” Pentagon officials said at the first public hearing on the subject since the 1960s. Pentagon officials speaking at the first public hearing on UFOs since the 1960s have shown […]

The experiment suggests that cyanobacteria ‘batteries’ using sunlight and water could run small devices. Researchers have discovered how to use cyanobacteria—commonly called blue-green algae—to continuously power a microprocessor for a span of more than six […]

The Event Horizon Telescope has captured a historic first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The image, which was taken in the light of submillimeter radio waves, confirms that […]

In 2021, a team of hologram doctors was “holoported” to space to visit astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, NASA has revealed in a new post. The hologram teams, led by NASA flight surgeon […]

Phenomena fuses art and science together to explore naturally occurring patterns, and the fundamental forces of nature that create them, to take us on an ambitious, innovative, and psychedelic journey through the fabric of the […]

He Jiankui created the first gene-edited children. The price was his career. And his freedom. The daring Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a […]

On March 16, NASA announced that one of the most critical steps in the commissioning process had been completed — the alignment of all 18 individual mirrors on James Webb’s primary mirror. Meanwhile, as optics […]

The Pentagon’s new office for what has been rebranded as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, has deep roots in the paranormal. Underneath the Washington defense talk about threats from China and Russia, there is a […]

The University of Melbourne is establishing a world-class research lab for de-extinction and marsupial conservation science. The Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research (TIGRR) Lab, led by Professor Andrew Pask, which will develop technologies that could […]

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in developing a simple hydrocarbon molecule with a logic gate function, similar to that in transistors, in a single molecule. The discovery could make electric components on […]

After six globe-trotting decades spent probing “the phenomenon,” the French information scientist is sure of only one thing: The truth is really, really out there. Vallée has written 12 books on what he and others […]

The idea that adversity presents us with an opportunity for change is familiar to all of us in the form of a story. We have all heard stories of sudden self-transformation, or what the US […]

Linguistic games and research are revealing a hidden connection between what words look and sound like, and what they mean. n the Cratylus Dialogue, written by Plato, Socrates confronted this same linguistic dilemma: do names […]

Canadian and Israeli company BioHarvest Sciences has announced the successful production of 22 pounds of fully viable cannabis biomass without actually growing the plant. This first-of-its-kind achievement comes only weeks after the same company added […]

Regrowing human limbs is a much bigger challenge, but some researchers think they’ll live to see it. Like humans, African clawed frogs can’t regrow missing limbs — yet. Scientists have gotten frogs with amputated legs […]

This month, a team at Harvard led by Dr. David Liu launched a new generation of molecular carriers inspired by viruses. This month, a team at Harvard led by Dr. David Liu launched a new […]

Researchers created a biocompatible graphene ink and used household printers to make electronic components. Scientists in Ireland have developed a new low-cost method to produce graphene, which could accelerate adoption of the strong and light […]

After traveling almost a million miles, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reached its final destination yesterday. The most powerful observatory ever to launch to space, the James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on Dec. 25, […]

Astronomers have discovered that a 1000-light-year-wide “Local Bubble” surrounding the Sun and Earth is responsible for the formation of all nearby, young stars. The study reveals that Earth and all of the stars and star-forming […]

Astronomers ended 2021 on a high with the launch on December 25 of the James Webb Space Telescope, but what else lies in store for space science this year? NASA’s Artemis program to send human […]

A priest, a rabbi and an imam are among theologians hired by NASA to examine how the world would react if life beyond earth was found on other planets. The US space agency NASA has […]

As a reminder that the universe just gets stranger and stranger the farther you get from Earth, here are 10 of the most awesome, extreme and enigmatic space structures discovered in 2021. This year, scientists […]

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope will probe the cosmos to uncover the history of the universe from the Big Bang to alien planet formation and beyond. It is one of NASA’s Great Observatories, […]

A new theory suggests that the universe perpetuates itself by constantly adapting its own physical laws over time. An autodidact is someone who has learned a subject without a teacher or formal education. Famous examples […]