In 2022, a Sun-observing probe flew through an S-shaped stream of charged particles pouring out of the star. These mysterious ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced today three additional topics for NSF X-Labs as part of the $1.5 billion investment the agency initiated in May, completing the portfolio of topics for ...

JERUSALEM, April 29 (Reuters) - New maps of Gaza quietly issued by Israel a little more than a month ago have put thousands of displaced Palestinians inside an expanded restricted area, within ...

United States President Donald Trump’s administration has fired all 22 members of the board that sets the policies of the government-funded national science agency, according to ex-board members and ...

The past seven years have arguably been the most tumultuous in recent retail history: Covid, major technology changes, tariffs, and higher interest rates have reshaped buying and selling in the sector ...

People laugh at Sir Francis Bacon nowadays because he said: “I take all learning to be my province.” Yet, if anyone has in his library the series of “Outlines” published nowadays—The Outline of ...

While many of my readers are philosophers, or have at least studied philosophy for a while at university, many are not. So I was reluctant to get into metaphysical debates within philosophy, fearing ...

The Scent of Flowers and Leaves: its Purpose and Relation to Man — By F. A. Hampton. This book is … a valuable contribution to the small literature of odour. The author offers a sound, but ...

At least 67,800 years ago, someone placed their hand on the wall inside a limestone cave and used a reddish-brown pigment to trace the outline of a handprint. But the unknown artist didn’t stop there: ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

Physical therapy is routinely recommended for knee pain attributed to a degenerative meniscal tear, but its efficacy has not been established. We randomly assigned participants 45 to 85 years of age ...