Low, winding ridges run across the Moon’s dark plains like faint seams in cooled wax. They are easy to miss in a wide photo. Up close, they look like the surface has been gently pushed from below. A ...

More than one million sources of energy are featured in the first X-ray images from the eROSITA space telescope. By Laura Baisas Published Feb 5, 2024 12:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

If you've ever wanted a better look at deep space, you now have your chance. A treasure trove of data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope is now available for public consumption. Included with ...

Scientists have done something immeasurably intriguing: they've managed to map the brain of a larval fruit fly completely. It's a huge step forward for neuroscience, as it gives scientists a complete ...

The complete set of neurons in an insect brain, which were reconstructed using synapse-resolution electron microscopy. Credit: Johns Hopkins University/University of Cambridge Understanding how a ...

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with its interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe,” that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding consciousness, with the unveiling of the world’s first complete, high-resolution brain map of the baby fruit fly. It’s the most complex and intricate ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin. Researchers have discovered what may be the ...

Astronomers have charted the largest-ever volume of the universe with a new map of active supermassive black holes living at the centers of galaxies. Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ...

Mapping genetic interactions is old hat, but now scientists are mapping science itself, and looked to see how it's been changing. According to the results of a mathematical model, neuroscience, for ...