A new study sheds light on the evolutionary connection between fish fins and human fingers.

We know that both aerobic exercise and meditation help curb depression. What happens when these interventions are combined? 

Scientists are concerned that the results of studies using mice may be affected by gut bacteria.

The confidence we crave in our leaders compromises their ability to help us avoid risk.

Future clothing will make you look dazzling with amazing special effects.   

Once the emergency is over, maybe it's time we drew a different map of Louisiana - however shocking it may be.

Silver medalists are likely less happy than Bronze medalists, because our minds have a tendency to dwell on “what could have been.”

The placebo effect is real. Why don't many people agree?

Professor Patrick McGovern, a world authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, describes how alcohol had a profound effect on early societies.

If perfected, Gene therapy promises to heal in one shot, without complications or side effects.   

Radioactive crystals left behind by ancient bacteria tell us about a long-ago supernova nearby.

University of California, Irvine physicists may have discovered a new fundamental force of nature. 

A Washington think tank raises concerns that U.S. nuclear weapons stored at a military base in Turkey can fall into the wrong hands.

The director of the National Museum of Natural History offers an under-three-minute joyride through the history of life on earth.

We know the benefits about positivity. What about grumpiness? 

You know what self-driving cars will help reduce? Phantom traffic jams. You know the ones, where traffic seems to just halt. You see no accidents, no construction, no state trooper—everything has just slowed for...

The Global economic midpoint is returning to Asia - at increasing speed.

The brain seems to be orderly arranged in ever complex and elegant ways, unique to each individual.   

Will economies and societies continue to innovate, finding new ways of increasing agricultural efficiency or will insufficient resources lead to catastrophes? In a 1958 work, Aldoux Huxley offered an answer.

Positive thinking all by itself is more destructive than helpful, but when combined with realism and strategy and planning, can be turned to good use.