When you picture lightning, it tends to be fairly straightforward – a jagged gash of light that splits the sky, disappearing ...

A new preprint study involving both macaque monkeys and humans suggests that the brain may be switching back and forth ...

Humans and chimpanzees are remarkably similar, despite the major differences in how our societies have panned out.

A significant amount of Alzheimer's research is looking at ways to tackle the harmful clumps of amyloid-beta protein that ...

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig failed catastrophically, leading to the largest oil spill in the history of Earth's ...

Rebecca Dyer is the Assistant Editor at ScienceAlert. She holds a Bachelor of Medical Science with majors in neuroscience and ...

Many things scattered throughout the Milky Way flicker, glow, and pulse in idiosyncratic ways. From the staccato static of a ...

The Kondo effect is one of the most important in quantum physics, describing the strange interference that magnetic atoms can ...

Known as Truk Atoll back then, it was the site of Japan's main naval base in the South Pacific Theater during World War II.

Quantum computers promise an incredible leap forward in terms of performance, but a lot of that promise is still locked away ...

In 1889, Vincent van Gogh watched the sky before sunrise from his room at an asylum in Saint-Rémy, southern France.

The amazing animal known as Ansell's mole rat (Fukomys anselli) is one of evolution's most interesting offerings: half fuzzy ...