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Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Some of the women experienced strange physical and emotional symptoms during orgasm, from sneezing to nosebleeds.

Shri Kulkarni, an Indian-origin astronomer and one of the world’s leading figures in modern astrophysics, has been awarded ...

The story behind the creepy smiling monkey photo.

Few natural wonders are as breathtakingly surreal as the electric blue flames dancing across Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano.

Some women climax into laughter, tears, or pain — and science is finally explaining why that doesn’t mean something is wrong.

Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined ...

India's Aditya-L1 solar observatory has provided new insights into how a powerful solar storm impacted Earth's ...

China has eclipsed its own – and the US – record, building a monster underground hypergravity centrifuge that can model ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Indian scientists have developed a non-invasive technique that allows real-time measurement of the local density of ...