NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks of Louisville Public Media about shape note singing and its influence across the American musical tradition.

A subtle twist between atomically thin magnetic layers can generate unexpectedly large and complex spin structures.

Abstract: Given a set of 2D scattering points from an edge detection operator, the aim of ellipse fitting is to construct an elliptic equation that best fit the observations. For the data collected ...

With a new mathematical model, a team of biophysicists has revealed fresh insights into how biological tissues are shaped by the active motion of structural imperfections known as "topological defects ...

During the seven minutes that his heart had stopped beating, he wrote that he didn’t see a tunnel, angels or anything like ...

An astrophysicist who suffered cardiac arrest shares his extraordinary account of being clinically dead for seven minutes – ...

A man who claims to have been clinically dead for seven minutes took to Reddit to share his near-death experience, revealing visions of elliptical shapes instead of the famous white light ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

Updated elevations show the White House ballroom below the Executive Residence roofline as planners weigh approval and a federal judge considers halting construction.

Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity ...

A RARE eclipse will create a “Ring of Fire” over a huge swath of Earth this week. It’s a special type of event known as an ...