Human fingers don't just sense what a surface feels like. They also tell us a lot about what's underneath it: a really firm handshake, for example, can reveal where some bones are, and, with enough ...

The medical culture of India is perhaps among the world’s most complex, integrating the scientific and metaphysical realms. It is also perhaps the most pervasive, with rich medical visuals and ...

The latest Yale University Art Gallery exhibition asks audiences to reckon with the violent origins of science in the West. “Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500-1800,” which opened to ...

A celestial object some 15,000 light-years away is emitting bright flashes of radio and X-rays that scientists are struggling to explain One of the strangest cosmic objects ever seen just got even ...