What does a universe look like when starlight is gone for good? Cosmology’s leading long-view answer is not an explosion or a dramatic collapse, but a drawn-out dimming into scarcity. Star formation ...

Joseph DiMeo remembers hopping into the car and blinking back sleep. Then he woke up in a hospital, three and a half months later, with 80 percent burns.

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The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?

Physicists at Radboud University have outlined a theoretical model suggesting that compact stars and their remnants could, in principle, slowly lose mass through a Hawking-like radiation process even ...

The UK, US, Russia, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea are the only nations in the world that possess ...

Fifteen years on from the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan, what can the work of diverse photographers reveal about the region and its residents?

The morning Gill Costello should have been given the all-clear, she was instead told the cancer had spread. Not just returned ...

Most people use too little SPF. Here’s the two-finger rule, the quarter-size guide, and the best ways to reapply over makeup.

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of space debris – and what we need to do about it Jettisoned junk A pallet of old batteries released into space from the ...