Science

In the 1970s and 80s, Vishwajit Gupta — a professor at the Panjab University in Chandigarh — made a name for himself as an expert in the geological formations and fossil records of the Himalayas.

It is the second time in less than a month​ that residents in one North Carolina county have faced evacuations due to wildfires.

We’re lucky it hadn’t been burnt to ash.

Learn how researchers played different types of music and tracked how well participants completed tasks.

Distributed acoustic sensing could allow telecom networks to study meteors

Have you ever stood by the sea and been overwhelmed by its vastness, by how quickly it could roll in and swallow you? Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a mysterious substance that shapes galaxies and large structures in the universe but is transparent to photons

How does it feel to be ‘highly sensitive’? If I’d heard the question without all I know now, I would have said I wouldn’t know because I wasn’t.

Around 15 percent of the world's population suffers from tinnitus, a condition which causes someone to hear a sound (such as ringing or buzzing) without any external source. It's often associated with hearing loss.

Since the 1990s, doctors have prescribed the drug metformin to treat type 2 diabetes, but scientists didn't fully understand how it worked.

That connection emerged several years ago in a series of conversations between myself, Jayson Stewart, and my grandfather Rudolf Schultz. My grandfather was an avid amateur sky gazer who kept a large reflector telescope in the foyer of his home, right by the entrance, ready for rapid deployment.