While there are plenty of skin-care brands catering to oily and acne-prone skin, sunscreen remains one of the most difficult categories to get right, particularly when it comes to textures that don’t ...

Everyone's favorite nostalgic lipstick shade now comes in a sensitive eye-friendly mascara that reviewers call "a very rare ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

Humectants are ingredients used in topical skin care products. Their primary function is to boost hydration by drawing moisture into the skin. "Like little hydration magnets, they attract water to the ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests could have quickly formed in the presence of compounds called borates. When ...

A thought experiment that was at the heart of an argument between famed physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in 1927 has finally been made real. Its findings elucidate one of the core mysteries ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

No one likes dry skin and hair. Not only can dry skin cause discomfort, but it can worsen conditions like eczema or put you at risk for skin infections. Dry hair feels brittle and straw-like, and the ...

These simple, DIY science experiments for kids will help combat "summer slide" — and your kids will be having so much fun, they won't even notice that their brains are getting a workout. The best part ...

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology’s most famous experiments. Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: ...

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it—an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter. Now, researchers at the ...