An unexplained glow that appears to emanate throughout the Milky Way’s outer regions could be our first hint of what dark matter is made of, but astronomers say it is too early to know for sure. Dark ...

White dwarfs don't get enough airtime. Sure, these ultradense, dim cores of dead stars are small and hard to see. But they're incredibly exotic, and they're what sunlike stars become. Billions of ...

Researchers have uncovered a method to purify a photon stream that is central to quantum circuitry. University of Iowa ...

When most people see a leafhopper in their backyard garden, they notice little more than a tiny green or striped insect flicking from leaf to leaf. But these insects are actually master engineers, ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

To "riddle" a Champagne bottle is to turn it daily to remove sediment and make it crystal clear. And for the rarest bottles, only the human touch will do. Pablo Lopez, Champagne riddler and cellarman ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The next Minecraft update hasn't been revealed yet, as Mounts of Mayhem was only recently released, on 9 December. Usually, the next Minecraft update ...

One Saturday morning in early September, I got a WhatsApp video call from eleven strangers locked inside a secretive detention camp in a forest in Ghana. Their faces looked glazed with sweat and ...

Teams searched for the group through what the local sheriff's office described as “rugged terrain” Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism ...

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with ...