The Penrose triangle, an impossible-looking shape, is made by welding metal pipes together. First, the metal pipes are cut with a cutting machine, then welded to form a triangle. The top parts of the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has won over many business leaders during her abbreviated presidential campaign. However, if Harris gets elected, her choice of giving Federal Trade Commission ...

Beyond the dandelion-shaped filaments and their ballistic expansion, the overall shape of the supernova is most unusual. The team could demonstrate that the ejecta—the material within the ...

As we'll explore in future articles in this series, light helps shape our mood, our immune system, how our gut works, and much more. Light can make us sick, tell us why we're sick, then treat us.

The size and shape of our brains also play a crucial role in cognitive functions and mental health. For example, a slightly smaller hippocampus, the structure responsible for regulation of memory ...

A theory that’s been around for more than a decade describes a person’s subjective well-being — “happiness” — as having a U-shape throughout the course of one’s life. If plotted on a graph, the shape ...

As limits on access to gender-transition–related health care increase, it’s helpful to contextualize the shift in terms of historical characterizations and fears of sexual and gender minority ...

In a new publication, “Inventing the Modern,” and a companion exhibition, 14 women who shaped the institution come into definition themselves. By Hilarie M. Sheets This article is part of the ...

They discuss a special two-hour episode that explores how language and metaphor have shaped science, for better or worse. KATHLEEN DAVIS: This is Science Friday. I’m Kathleen Davis. Here AT SciFri, we ...