A single gemstone from Myanmar holds the title of Earth's rarest mineral, kyawthuite.

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Seth Millstein is a writer and musician living in the Bay Area. He has helped launch several early-stage journalism startups, ...

The ambitious and top secret project was supposed to withstand a first strike by the Soviet Union, but it ultimately couldn't ...

Chinese scientists now have access to the world's most powerful hypergravity facility. Every time an astronaut returns from ...

Zooming in on the auditory cortex, the researchers found three unique sets of neurons that light up while we listen to music.

With less than 10% of global plastic recycled and the rest wreaking havoc on ecosystems, a team of Japanese scientists has ...

Take a closer look at your hands—they carry millions of years of evolutionary history, connecting you to our closest primate ...

CT-Scans use Röntgen radiation, known as X-rays -- they penetrate through most materials and are captured by a special film ...

On November 6, U.S. student inquiries rose dramatically from an average of 2,000–3,000 daily to 10,801—the largest single-day ...

Orcas have been observed launching synchronized attacks hunting whale sharks for the first time.

Physicists have now visualized the shape of a photon—the smallest unit of light—using a novel theoretical model. These ...