Pulmonary embolisms occur when blood clots form elsewhere in the body and travel to the lungs, where they can become ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

With its opposable thumb, multiple joints and gripping skin, human hands are often considered to be the pinnacle of dexterity ...

An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, revealing 13.7 million cosmic sources and delivering the most complete ...

Each has its own merits (and slips, of course), from the suffocating atmosphere of Call of Cthulhu and the groundbreaking ...

Physicists at NYU have discovered a new type of time crystal—an exotic state of matter whose particles rhythmically “tick” while levitating on sound waves.

If you're a new parent, you might be using AI with your infant already—whether you know it or not. But while AI can be a ...

Muons tend to scatter more from high-atomic-number materials, so the technique is particularly sensitive to the presence of materials such as uranium. As a result, it has been used to create systems ...

Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers are re-examining Aristotle’s model of the five senses by investigating how the brain processes sensory information.

ROCHESTER — In the first full year after Minnesota's charity care screening law took effect, many nonprofit hospital systems increased their charity care spending. A Post Bulletin analysis of nine ...