The universe has no shortage of mysteries, many of which have puzzled us for ages. One of the biggest is the existence of something called dark matter. First theorized in 1933 by Fritz Zwicky, dark ...

Human vision feels complete and reliable, yet a growing body of research suggests our eyes and brains are constantly editing ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

An invisible, weak energy field wrapped around our planet Earth has finally been detected and measured. It's called the ambipolar field, an electric field first hypothesized more than 60 years ago, ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new window insulation material that could dramatically cut ...

Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our sight. Chinese scientists have devised a camouflage material that adjusts its molecular composition to blend into the background, ...

Scientists in China have created a new camouflaging material that changes colour in response to its surroundings, an advance they say may help develop clothing to make one “effectively invisible”.

Roughly 2,000 miles south of New Zealand's southernmost point lies Lake Enigma, an aptly named body of water tucked into coastal Antarctica. The lake's ice cover is deeper than the lake itself: ...

Researchers have discovered that microplastics floating in rivers, lakes, and oceans continuously leak a complex mixture of ...