April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

When light rays from each point on the object can reach the film by taking many different paths, they blur the image. That’s what happens with a large aperture. Conversely, a small aperture leaves ...

My hypothesis on why they aren’t eaten is due to the large number of poisonous animals in the ocean. For example, if an orca ...

This process, called neural adaptation, allows previously unpleasant flavours to become pleasurable. Coffee may gradually ...

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles ...

A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness in his new book A World Appears. He ...

Mark Thomson is the newly appointed director general of CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the world’s biggest particle ...

Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are ...

Four astronauts have begun a 10-day journey around the moon and back again, the first crewed flight to the moon since 1972 ...

A virus seems to have jumped from marine animals into people for the first time ever, and it is causing serious vision ...

In a shift that is reshaping entire ecosystems, the open oceans are letting less light in. We don't fully understand the ...