In most places, water meets legal guidelines. But is it safe? One EWG spokesperson says no.
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We used to think of genes themselves as set in stone. But the story is far more complex.
Student loan debt doesn’t make you undateable. How you handle it might.
It isn’t just for merging neutron stars, anymore. Over the past three years, there’s arguably been no greater scientific discovery than the direct detection of gravitational waves. The two LIGO […]
North Korea has a long history of making bellicose threats that defy global norms. So does that mean the country’s leaders are irrational, and will act irrationally?
It’s a lot more than just being unable to measure two things simultaneously. “In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist […]
Is creativity a wild and free state of mind, or is it actually a pattern that others just can’t recognize?
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Even things like appetite and tiredness move through social networks, researchers found.
Another week, another selection of the wittiest and most chin-strokingly interesting comments from our Facebook audience.
The world today is far more complex than it was 200 years ago, but the speeches and writings of the Founding Fathers point to a common general principle.
Researchers for the U.S. military are studying salamanders and other animals to discover how they can regrow lost body parts.
The off-kilter war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un reminds us of better, funnier insults.
The findings of this study are stunning: in a 16-hour waking day, adults are sedentary for 12.3 hours.
New research at USC shows universal brain activity in the comprehension of stories for the first time.
Technology is allowing us to quantify exercise like never before, but turning activity into a game may be the most successful way to encourage fitness yet.
“We don’t notice one another nearly as much as we think we do,” says Alan Alda. Here’s how the actor inspired a scientific study on empathy.
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In case you haven’t already heard of CRISPR-Cas9, it is the revolutionary gene-editing technology, discovered just a few years ago, that allows scientists to edit the DNA of any species […]
The study had some interesting findings for the adult children of separated parents who were civil.
It’s always been our brains.
A new study examines reasons behind the persistence of neuromyths.
“Space-time is not as static as it appears, it’s constantly moving,” one researcher said.
These may not be the only social predators that do.
An accidental discovery may lead to a vaccine-like treatment for depression and PTSD.
Before we go venturing off to another star to look for life, why not look here? “If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than […]
They’re the fastest rotators of all. So how distorted are they? There are very few objects in the Universe that stand still; almost everything we know of rotates in some way. […]
Researchers at Human Longevity have developed technology that can generate images of individuals face using only their genetic information. But not all are convinced.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is working in with video game developers to create a space exploration game called Space Odyssey.
If atmospheric hazes can cool the distant ice dwarf by an extra 30 degrees Celsius, maybe we can geoengineer a solution to our warming problem? When NASA’s New Horizons flew by […]
This conceptual framework is the most advanced representation of human emotions to date.
A new study correlates personality type with sleeping position, with infographics