Some metals display an unusually high electrical resistance. Researchers now have an explanation for why.

A liquid droplet pushed by the wind contracts and stretches its way along a surface until it breaks apart.

An ape skull found in Turkey may challenge the belief that human and ape ancestors came from Africa. The discovery suggests that hominins may have first evolved.

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution.

Unearthing of fossilized remains in Turkey suggests human origins may actually lie in Europe Africa has always been considered the cradle of mankind, with humans evolving from apes on the continent, before spreading to the rest of the world. But an intriguing find is challenging the long-standing assumption.

Aditya-L1 will carry out scientific studies of the Sun from a vantage point 1.5 million km above Earth.

Travel around the world with author Dan Buettner to discover five unique communities where people live extraordinarily long and vibrant lives.

We can already see fires start from space, soon after they start. Here’s why we don’t yet have a nationwide system for alerting us when they do—but could someday.

Surprisingly, 107 years after the introduction of general relativity, the meanings of basic concepts are still being worked out.

According to today’s conventional scientific wisdom, time flows strictly forward — from the past to the future through the present. We can remember the past, and we can predict the future based on the past (albeit imperfectly) — but we can’t perceive the future.

But if the recent data from the lab of Prof. Daryl Bem at Cornell University is correct, conventional scientific wisdom may need some corrections on this particular point.

In a research paper titled Feeling the Future, recently accepted for publication in the prestigious Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Bem presents some rather compelling empirical evidence that in some cases — and with weak but highly statistically significant accuracy – many human beings can directly perceive the future. Not just predict it based on the past.