According to one hypothesis, the comet is responsible for giving humans the swastika symbol, thousands of years in the past.

Welcome back to Birdbrained Science! Last month, I hinted that not all leaves fall — and no, I’m not referring to evergreen trees, when I say that. I’m talking about another nature phenomenon that ...

A study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has recreated in the laboratory chemical reactions that may ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations, one of its earliest surveys was of galaxies that existed during ...

If we can understand exactly how neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS progress in fruit flies, we may also gain valuable ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Cory Doctorow’s newest book provides ideas for how to de-enshittify the world wide web that’s become our everyday life.

An overview of how genetics associated with schizophrenia and bipolar can influence how cells communicate, ultimately ...

A new study from Washington University in St. Louis published in Communications Biology presents compelling evidence to ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb currently says there is a 30-40 percent chance the object is not natural in origin.