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A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.

Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.

When we feel sick, it’s not just the pathogen to blame. Our brain cranks up the temperature, and the neurons responsible finally have been found.

In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.

Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.

Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.

Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.

Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.

Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.

Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.

In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.

Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.

A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”

Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.

About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors’ infections.

The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.

Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.

As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.

And if they could, would they care, asks philosopher John Gray in his new book.

To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.

The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.

COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.

The main bioactive compound in catnip seems to protect cats from mosquitoes. It might protect humans, too.

“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?

An upstart third party is unlikely to dislodge the status quo in the current system.

Yes, there are reasons to worry about Twitter, but it’s not about the bots.

Realism in science cannot be completely unmoored from human experience. Otherwise, realism ends up tortured with unreal paradoxes.

In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.

Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.