Scientists have directly watched angular momentum move through a crystal for the very first time — and discovered a bizarre twist along the way. Using ultra-powerful terahertz laser pulses, ...

Anyone who has had chickenpox shares one distinct memory: the relentless, all-consuming itch. Ciara DiVita was only 3 years old when she caught the virus, but she remembers it well—along with the oven ...

A young woman will have both her legs surgically amputated after they bent at a 45-degree angle upwards. Megan Dixon, 21, has been left with unbearable, constant pain for the past eight years when her ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Inspired by the movie Interstellar, a team of researchers figured out—at least hypothetically—how to send messages to the past. The researchers ...

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The arrow of time marches forward. Eggs don’t uncrack; milk doesn’t unspill. But now new research has found a way that this arrow could be reversed in a quantum system, flip-flopping events as if time ...

Maybe you’ve seen photos of Tehran in the 1970s, just before the Islamic Revolution: images of young women going to work in miniskirts, of couples making out in parks while wearing bell-bottoms, of ...

Feel like you can’t focus or are plagued by mental fatigue? It could be symptoms of brain fog, which can be triggered by everything from declining estrogen levels during menopause to lack of quality ...

The popularity of the debut season of Ryan Murphy’s Love Story—a limited series on the tumultuous, stylish, and very public lives of John F. Kennedy Jr. (played by Paul Anthony Kelly) and Carolyn ...

When we hear certain sounds, our brains often pair them with specific shapes. For example, most people will associate a sharp-sounding word with a jagged, pointed shape, while a soft, rolling word is ...

When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called "kiki" and which one is "bouba," people from all kinds of cultures overwhelmingly associate "bouba" with the ...