New Website Shows You What Synesthesia Looks Like
Among the many types of synesthesia is grapheme-color, where people often perceive letters in color blocks.
Among the many types of synesthesia is grapheme-color, where people often perceive letters in color blocks.
The viral images of brooms standing on their own are real, but the story that they can only balance like that on one day are false.
Old Faithful isn't as predictable as it used to be, but geologists in Yellowstone National Park can still time its eruptions pretty accurately.
Masks have become a part of daily life for millions in response to the spread of coronavirus. But can they really lessen the spread of disease?
These nuisance creatures have a system for braving the cold so they can emerge in the spring and get back to the business of slurping up your blood.
A solar telescope has captured the highest-resolution image of the Sun's surface ever taken, and it looks like the inside of a Cracker Jack bag.
Six decades after Félicette became the first cat to travel to space and the only cat to return alive, the history-making feline has received her own memorial.
It's just one of several horrors that befell victims in Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE.
The outbreak started in Wuhan, China, and now five cases have been confirmed in the U.S. Here are the details.
The short answer is: yes, elements have been removed from the periodic table. The longer answer is that what constitutes an 'element' can be complicated.
The venom of the Sydney funnel web spider can kill in as little as 15 minutes. And they might be lurking in Australian residents' shoes or laundry.
The 98.6°F human body temperature may no longer be the standard. Scientists point to a marked decrease in inflammation.
Wollemi pines have lived on Earth for 200 million years. And without quick action from firefighters, the species' last wild population would have been wiped out for good by wildfires in Australia.
Loose batteries—especially 9-volt batteries—can become a fire hazard in the catch-all chaos of a junk drawer.
The idea of cats devouring their dead owners is no urban legend. A new paper documented these savage creatures dining out on human flesh.
Some wolf puppies will retrieve balls for perfect strangers, suggesting that the species may be genetically predisposed toward the adorable behavior.
Bovine vocalization isn't just random bleating. New research suggests that cows can be identified by their individual moos.
A meteorite that landed in Australia in 1969 contains stardust that formed up to 7 billion years ago—making it older than the Earth or the sun.
Read about the life of Carl Sagan, the famed astronomer, author, and TV personality behind 'Cosmos.'
The discovery of 10 bird species and subspecies on three remote islands in Indonesia marks the first time in over a century that so many new birds have been found in such a small area.
Seeing your breath isn't a cold weather phenomenon. It can also be visible when it's as warm as 60°F outside!
3D movies of shrimp were involved, too—all in the name of seeing if cuttlefish use stereopsis like we do.
The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant led to the evacuation of 100,000 humans. But the animals don't appear to be going anywhere.
TOI 700 d, an exoplanet orbiting a star 100 light-years away, is the first one discovered by NASA's TESS mission with the potential to support life.