Rare paintings, exquisite wrist watches and luxury cars belonging to fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi will be auctioned from Thursday. The sale of 112 …

Like many seismologists, Bruce Banerdt checks his email every morning for the latest quake report. Unlike others, however, he fervently hopes that the “big one” has finally hit. That’s because the information in his daily briefing comes from an entirely different …

An analysis of human feet and fossils has given new clues to how our feet got their stiffness, enabling us to walk and run upright. The arches in the human foot are key to this stiffness. Other primates have flatter, more flexible feet that can bend much more than …

It’s long been known that endurance athletes have larger hearts on average than the rest of the population and that cardiac enlargement is a healthy adaptation to exercise. But what wasn’t known until now was whether the aorta — the main artery leaving the …

The census is an unusual subject. Pieter Bruegel has painted one of the culminating moments of bureaucratic life. Bureaucracy is the science of …

Tara Flores’s Paintings Seem to Vibrate on Another Level … them close to her while she works translating each crystal’s energy into her paintings.

Peter Saul doesn’t fall into any of the easy categories that often define an artist’s trajectory. He isn’t being rediscovered per se, nor is he …

More than 230 million people worldwide suffer from Asthma, according to the World Health Organization. In Europe, Ireland has some of the highest rates, with one in five children experiencing the chronic disease at some point. But a breakthrough at Trinity …

A new study conducted by a team of researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) suggests that having adequate sleep can do more for teenagers than just help them stay awake in class. A good night’s sleep can also help them better deal with social …

Efforts to develop heterogeneous catalysts that appeal to the fine chemical industry have been limited by underwhelming results. Although some approaches have shown promising catalytic activity, “heterogenization” itself is not enough. To be adopted by …