As with many things in life, pausing and looking deeper into your subject is a key strategy. “When you’re in nature, look for ...

Your fingers wrinkle in the same pattern every time you're in the water for too long, according to new research.

Researchers have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer ...

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A study of weather on a mountain in Greece reveal that bioparticles in the sky may drive fluctuations in rainfall patterns more broadly.

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath Earth's surface, some faults move in near ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have developed a digital laboratory system that fully ...

A new study inspired by a student's question has found something surprising about human fingers, and how they wrinkle after ...

A new study using high-resolution images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed striking surface patterns on Mars that resemble the effects of paint dripping down a wall—a ...

Learn more about how one student's question inspired the study that proves our fingers wrinkle in the same pattern every time ...

To figure out why these wrinkled patterns stay the same ... I feel like a kid in a candy store, because there’s so much science here that I don’t know.” The PopSci team has tested hundreds ...

We live in a ‘social media first’ world today, and everything we do, every new task we take up, is in some way or the other ...