Category: 7. Science

Scientists may be closer to understanding why time seems to pass more quickly as we age — and brain scans of people watching an old Alfred Hitchcock show helped them address this enduring question.

In a study published Sept. 30 in the journal

A striking new photo of the superbright “Comet Lemmon” (C/2025 A6) shows the partial remains of its sizeable tail, shortly after the ethereal limb was temporarily torn apart by the sun. The cosmic shredding occurred just a few days before the…

Fragments of the hellish, lava-covered “proto-planet” that existed before Earth 4.5 billion years ago have survived unaltered in ancient rocks, groundbreaking new research reveals.

The fragments contain telltale potassium signatures not seen in…

In a city, coworking hubs bring people and ideas together. Inside cancer cells, similar hubs form—but instead of fueling progress, they supercharge disease. That’s what researchers at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas…

When ultrarunners lace up for races that last days and span hundreds of miles, they aren’t just testing grit and quads – they’re running controlled experiments on human physiology. A new study finds a stark result: even the fittest…

Night hides more than soundless wings and high-pitched calls. It hides color too. Researchers from the University of Georgia have now found that some North American bats glow bright green under ultraviolet light.

The finding may look like a party…

A prehistoric hominin that lived more than four million years ago in Ethiopia may have climbed like a chimp and walked a bit like a human. Known as Ardipithecus ramidus – or Ardi for short – this extinct primate may therefore have served as a…