Yet he would never accuse the sacred writers of the slightest mistake - "that we leave to impious folk like Celsus ... in the Bible touching physical science, history and the like, which cannot ...

Scientists in California claim to have discovered a new jaw-dropping color no human has ever seen before. The catch? You have to zap your eyes with laser pulses to see it. Five scientists at the ...

He later pursued graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he obtained both his master’s degree and Ph.D. in planetary science. During his time at MIT ...

A team of scientists has identified areas of the brain that are activated when a person becomes aware of themself and their thoughts. This enigmatic process appears to be controlled by the ...

Scientists using The James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered potentially earth-shattering evidence indicating a faraway world could be home to alien life. A team at the University of Cambridge ...

A National Institutes of Health scientist is retiring after 21 years on the job, blaming changes made under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kevin Hall, who specialized in ...

Scientists have devised a method to hijack the human eye, enabling it to see brand-new colors that lie beyond the scope of natural human vision. With this technique, the researchers enabled five ...

Astronomers may have just stumbled across a ghost galaxy hiding in plain sight — a small, starless, fast-moving cloud of gas that checks all the boxes for what’s known as a “dark galaxy.” ...

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On Earth, these compounds are produced only by microbial life such as phytoplankton. The scientists admit that there is a possibility that these substances have been produced on the planet by an ...

Scientists have announced the detection of dimethyl sulfide—a chemical that, on Earth, is only produced by living organisms—in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18b. This is the second ...

The claim is controversial, but much of the coverage was positive. The problem, I think, is Star Trek, or any other science fiction you might care to mention. Thanks to the budgets that govern ...