It is that time of year again, when the Twitter crowd erupts about “Who is going to win the Nobel Prize this year?” Unfortunately, there seems to be a real disconnect between the process, ...

For some reason, hurricanes are terrified of South America. In fact, as long as we’ve been keeping track, it’s only EVER been ...

Do you know what is most fascinating about tanning? Our skin is literally changing its biology because it has been exposed to ultraviolet radiation, and somehow we decided that ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), have identified the ...

The truth is out there – but identifying signs of life in space involves an intense search for biosignatures within our solar ...

For more than 70 years, fusion energy researchers have used a particular equation to judge whether a plasma would stay hot and dense enough — for long enough — to reach a point where it co ...

Over 500 years before the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, First Dynasty kings were buried in a tomb surrounded by many burials of household officials and artisans — many of which seem to ...

We appear to be close to semi- or fully sentient A.I. So far, there has been little to no consideration of what these A.I.

Every extra walk to school, kickabout in the park or trip to the shops could be doing more for teenage mental health than ...

For the first time, Northwestern scientists have identified a set of neurons — cells in the brain — that play a role in generating anxiety after exposure to cannabinoid drugs, especially u ...

It may be time for the animal kingdom to reset its clock. According to a new study by an international group of researchers, including a renowned Yale paleontologist, the beginning of animal life ...

On the shores of Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania, a small number of people still hunt and gather their food. Today a Hadza hunter has taken down an animal – a kudu. He can’t carry it by himself, so he ...