
Can humans sense wetness?
Yes, we know the feeling of getting stuck in a rainstorm. But can we really sense the wetness on our skin?

By Harry Baker published
A new deep-sea mapping project has revealed near-continuous reefs of cold-water corals spanning an area the size of Vermont just off the southeast U.S. coastline.

By Sascha Pare last updated
Asteroid 2024 BJ, which astronomers detected earlier this month, will zoom within 220,000 miles of Earth tomorrow, or closer to us than the average distance to the moon.

By Paul Sutter published
The presence of supermassive black holes in the earliest epochs of the universe has scientists stumped — but repeated explosions from tiny black holes may offer an explanation.

By Lloyd Coombes published
Deal The Beats Fit Pro are like AirPods Pro but for working out, and now you can get them for 20% off.

By Patrick Pester published
Scientists spent years retrieving fossils of the Cretaceous sauropod, which they've named Sidersaura, or "star lizard."

By Sascha Pare published
Here's what you need to know about procrastination if your New Year's resolution is to stop dragging your feet.

By Kiley Price published
The tangle is known as a trefoil knot — and it's made up of just 54 atoms.

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
The Elysian E9X is a 90-seater plane that can one day travel up to 620 miles — and it's based on research that claims our previous assumptions on battery-electric aircraft were wrong.

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers.