Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

People are buying helmets, face masks, vests and beds that emit long-wavelength light. Beneath the hype, there is some ...

For nearly five decades, artist Paresh Maity has been painting landscapes not simply as views of places but as emotional encounters with them. And the boat has ...

For the first time in history, scientists have succeeded in visually capturing the speed of light. Through an innovative use of high-speed photography and lasers, researchers have managed to ...

The best images of the Nature Photography Contest have been decided, and we can't imagine it was an easy task for the judges – as just picking some, not all, to showcase here has been a huge challenge ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that light plays a key role in how animals perceive environmental threats, ...

Stars in the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Pictor II. (CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA) Once upon a time, billions of years ago, the Universe was shrouded in darkness. It wasn't until the first stars began to ...

Tucked away amid the highways and byways of extragalactic space are to be found a plethora of fascinating and amazing objects ...

In the years since disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead from what was ruled a suicide in his prison cell on Aug ...

The Springs Living faced a significant challenge in developing its latest property, The Springs at the Waterfront: It had to bring its standard design ...