Many people struggle to sleep enough at night. Surprisingly, science cannot say if adding in a nap to sleep in two blocks is ...

Apollo astronauts reported seeing flashes of light where there were none. Fifty years later, the flashes still mess with ...

NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will tackle nearly every aspect of astrophysics, including dark matter, dark ...

Rubidium atoms on China’s Tiangong space station fell with the same acceleration, upholding a cornerstone of Einstein’s ...

Incredible things happen routinely. People win the lottery — twice. Golfers hit holes-in-one several days in a row. Basketball players appear to get a “hot hand” (SN: 2/12/11, p. 26; SN Online: ...

Three species preferred different people based on their skin odor and bacteria. The findings could help make new ...

NASA’s attempt to save the falling Swift telescope failed, revealing the realities of the burgeoning field of satellite ...

Appalachia is a hotspot of landslides, but many there can’t afford to move away or mitigate the danger, a new study finds.

Scientists are largely clueless about the origins of static electricity. A quirky group of researchers aims to change that.

A study of 70,000 earthquakes finds tiny tremors often precede larger fracking-linked quakes, offering a warning to halt ...

A many-legged oddball from long ago helps fill a major gap in the fossil record — and hints at how insects ended up with just ...

Artemis IV will put people on the moon’s surface for the first time in 50 years. NASA research reveals the microbes that ...