Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

There are many types of spacetime within physics, the same way there are infinite dimensions in math. Some spacetimes are ...

A swarm of jellyfish shut down four of six nuclear reactors at the Gravelines power plant near Calais, France. The jellyfish ...

A study analyzed 503 documented cases of serpent cannibalism and found that the behavior can be seen in different snakes across the world in different contexts, whether between mates, siblings, or ...

The most common and widespread species of deer in North America may rely on “photoluminescence” in some surprising ways.

The looters had plans to plunder an ancient cave workshop from the Second Temple Period on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus.

A conspiracy theory that spread on social media claims that gravity will disappear for seven seconds this August, and that NASA is aware that this will happen. A physics professor explains why this is ...

TCL is known as the king of budget TVs. Can its new bank-breaking set compete with the best of the best?

Instead of depicting the Trojan War from Homer’s Iliad as originally deduced, the mosaic may actually be a reference to the ...

The Twist Tighe is an out-the-front (OTF) automatic, which means the blade shoots out the front—decidedly cool but also safer than other common pocket knife open/close mechanisms since it’s pretty ...

There are wolves that look like dogs, and dogs that appear suspiciously like wolves. For most, this is just a symptom of the ...

When most people think about how a paper shredder works, the image that comes to mind is very clear: You slowly feed your ...