Mathematicians have produced a three-dimensional shape that looks less like a familiar solid and more like a geometric puzzle designed to break your brain. Called a genus-3 polyhedron, the structure has eight flat faces, 24...

Mathematicians have produced a three-dimensional shape that looks less like a familiar solid and more like a geometric puzzle designed to break your brain. Called a genus-3 polyhedron, the structure has eight flat faces, 24...

A 16-year-old boy has drawn scientists’ attention for an exceptionally rare ability to recall personal experiences in vivid detail, including memories he says date back to when he was about three months old. The teenager,...

A bizarre herbivore with a beak and prominent tusks is giving scientists a new clue about when some of the earliest dinosaurs may have appeared. Researchers led by the University of Bristol have described a...

Scientists have taken a striking step toward decoding visual information from the brain by reconstructing short movies using neural activity recorded from mice. Researchers at University College London (UCL) used signals from individual neurons in...

Earth’s surface is dominated by oceans, rivers and ice, but some of the planet’s water may be stored in a far less accessible place: nearly 2,900 kilometers beneath our feet. A new study published in...

A new theory about the Great Pyramid of Giza is raising eyebrows by suggesting that its architecture may contain a mathematical system linked to the Moon, stars and planetary cycles. Independent researcher Sefy Levy argues...

Deep beneath the leaf litter of a Thai forest, scientists have discovered a tiny flower that appears to have abandoned one of the most fundamental rules of plant life. The newly described species, Thismia daemona,...

A decades-old idea about the nature of consciousness is getting another look from scientists after new research suggested that quantum effects may persist in biological systems under conditions far warmer than once thought possible. The...

For decades, scientists have believed that the Moon formed after a planetary body called Theia collided with the young Earth roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The enormous impact blasted material into space, creating a disk...