Scale is something the human brain genuinely struggles to process. You can read that the blue whale weighs 190 tons, nod thoughtfully, and still have absolutely no visceral sense of what that means — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An "abnormally large dust cloud" from the Sahara is making about a 5,000-mile trek across the Atlantic, suppressing tropical ...

A gene called ZNRF3, known to be involved in cancer, also messes with the mind. The human brain relies on two copies of this gene to build a correctly sized brain. If one of the copies is defective, ...

Crimson sunrises and sunsets will paint the eastern Texas sky next week, most likely not as any ill omen for the remaining months of 2020, but from dust. An "abnormally large dust cloud" from the ...