Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, and sometimes these atoms are slightly heavier than usual. These heavier forms are called isotopes. As water evaporates or moves through the atmosphere, the ...

Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; ...

In prophetic words for today’s AI age, in 2014, he urged the Church and the political world to remember that human beings may perish by misusing technology, but never by discovering the truth — an ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

Scientists have found a powerful new way to follow water as it moves around the planet—by tracking subtle “fingerprints” hidden inside its atoms.

Gravity used to be the most dependable rule in the cosmic rulebook, the quiet background force that never changed its mind. Now a series of discoveries and bold claims are turning that certainty into ...

A long-standing mystery in spintronics has just been shaken up. A strange electrical effect called unusual magnetoresistance ...

There's something mesmerizing about watching a marble race down a wooden track, clicking and clacking its way through loops, spirals, and drops. It's a simple pleasure that never gets old, no matter ...

T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...

Scientists at the University of Warwick have cracked a long-standing problem in air pollution science: how to predict the movement of irregularly shaped nanoparticles as they drift through the air we ...

In rejecting psychoanalysis to align with the "hard" sciences, psychology abandoned the human psyche. We're paying the price ...