Learning while sleeping had long been relegated to the realm of quackery, but new studies suggest that we may be able to problem-solve and practice skills in our dreams.

A spectacular cosmic event nicknamed “SN Winny” could help solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: how fast the universe is expanding. This rare superluminous supernova, located 10 billion ...

Athina Kanioura; Clara Shih; Julie KimCaroline Brehman—AFP/Getty Images; David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images; Barry Chin—The Boston Globe/Getty Images When Julie Kim takes over as CEO of ...

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

From the greatest enigmas of time and space to the strangest places, right here on Earth, through the mysteries of the human experience, here are some of the most bizarre phenomena for which science ...

If gravity’s the reason that quantum wave functions collapse, then time must be “fuzzy.” ...

My journey into medicine started when I lost my grandpa to cancer. I remember him dropping me off at my sixth-grade classroom in the morning, and by the time I got home, he was gone. I bought an ...

During therapy sessions, people often ask me if they should stop communicating with a family member or essentially go “no contact.” It’s an important question and one that deserves careful ...

If you've ever taken an introductory astronomy class, you've probably seen the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. This graph ...

Technology has made it easier and easier to maintain long-distance relationships. Source: Oscar Wong/Getty Yes, long-distance relationships can be very inconvenient and you probably wouldn't say, "I ...