This experience has a dramatic name: exploding head syndrome. Despite the alarming name, it’s not dangerous, not painful, and ...

It was the car crash to end all car crashes. Or so it sounded when it woke me in the early morning hours, wide-eyed, heart pounding. I lay curled up in bed, straining to hear other sounds outside my ...

Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars – supernovae – near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of life. Prof. Henrik Svensmark of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was ...