Look—they just made movies better in the ’90s. While today’s landscape is crammed with sequels and remakes and endless ...

Danish artist Kasper Eistrup (b. 1973) works in what could be described as material world-building, wherein he balances painting and drawing as well as the paper or canvas supports are poetically ...

The perceptual apparatus we understand the least is smell. And that is a problem, because smell is extremely important not only for getting information about our surroundings, but also for our ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, and today we can sequence thousands of human genomes to identify these ...

Type 2 diabetes doesn’t just raise the risk of heart disease—it physically reshapes the heart itself. Researchers studying donated human hearts found that diabetes disrupts how heart cells produce ...

After 500 years, scientists have finally decoded a heart structure first sketched by Leonardo da Vinci, linking it to cardiovascular disease risk. For centuries, the inner surface of the human heart ...

This snapshot is just a small part of one of the most comprehensive and spectacular views yet of the universe — a web-like structure formed by millions of galaxies, stretching back to near the dawn of ...

Astronomers have just completed the largest high-resolution three-dimensional map of the universe, including more than 47 million galaxies and other massive objects. The map could help solve the ...

Scientists have created a new "molecular map" uncovering how an important human receptor involved in blood clotting and inflammation works—an advance that could help us design better drugs for ...

WHAT BEGAN with strikes by America and Israel in Tehran has spilled across the Middle East. Iran has been hit thousands of times and struck back against neighbours with drones and missiles. The ...