A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to "see" images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it.

Researchers have directly observed organic hydrotrioxides forming in Earth’s atmosphere, confirming the existence of a class of potent oxidizing molecules that scientists had predicted for decades but ...

Researchers use afterimages to prove the brain predicts eye movements with 94% accuracy, revealing the internal "efference copy" mechanism that keeps our vision stable.

Four in 10 Kenyans who seek care at the country's only specialist sleep laboratory are battling insomnia, even as Kenyans joined the rest of the world in marking World Sleep Day.

NASA’s SPARCS spacecraft has just sent back its first images, marking a major milestone in the mission to study low-mass stars and their potential to host habitable planets. Launched in January 2026, ...

The ESA is investigating a fireball that streaked across the skies in Europe and damaged a house in Germany; scientists detect a spooky glow coming from trees during thunderstorms; bumblebee queens ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

April Stonehouse, a forensic science professor at Arizona State University, said the flashlight represents “a great source of ...

For years, researchers have suspected that a hormone called relaxin could be an effective treatment for certain cardiovascular diseases. It helps counteract scarring (fibrosis), prevents veins and ...

Marco Donghia’s photograph of the Cryogenic Laboratory for Detectors at INFN National Laboratories of Frascati won first place in the judges’ competition (courtesy: Marco Donghia) From an image of a ...

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most ...