You’re in the middle of the afternoon, eyelids heavy, focus slipping. You close your eyes for half an hour and wake up feeling recharged. But later that night, you’re ...

While waiting to see what Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. does with U.S. food-and-drug policies, the scientific community is right to insist that ...

While waiting to see what Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. does with U.S. food-and-drug policies, the scientific community is right to insist that ...

You’re in the middle of the afternoon, eyelids heavy, focus slipping. You close your eyes for half an hour and wake up ...

In 2020, a group of MIT researchers detected an anomaly in the nuclei of ytterbium atoms. They said that the nuclei’s strange ...

In the mid-1990s, a meteorite with the unmemorable name ALH84001 became the most famous rock in the world. Because one team ...

Reality is not real. Your world is a prediction. Every sight, sound, and touch you experience is the result of calculations your brain makes before reality even reaches you. It fills ...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. does with U.S. food-and-drug policies, the scientific community is right to insist that the ...

Hollywood (and other fictional media) loves to show people dying in outer space. And it has several go-to causes of death, on ...

For as long as humans have had lice, we’ve fought hard to get rid of them. Nit combs, the fine-tooth brushes used to remove ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long distance ...

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ostriches that walk upright on two hind legs, or predators like eagles and hawks w ...