Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space ...

The American doctor has revealed that enigmatic DNA circles are present in more than half of patients with highly aggressive ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

What began with a sliver of brain tissue no larger than a grain of sand has culminated in a scientific achievement once ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

A scientist has made a bold claim that the Garden of Eden, also referred to as Paradise, has been found, but it's not where ...