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From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.

Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.

In the name of fighting horrific crimes, Apple threatens to open Pandora’s box.

It’s common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.

Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.

Memes communicate complex ideas quickly and efficiently, but that’s precisely what makes them so dangerous. 

Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?

Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?

Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.

There is strong evidence that invertebrates are sentient beings.

Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.

Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.

Scientists confirm that slow blinks are an effective way to connect with a cat.

Giant particle accelerators aren’t a waste of money. They are essential for understanding the Universe.

Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.

Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

If you look into a mirror, you’ll notice that left-and-right are reversed, but up-and-down is preserved. The reason isn’t what you think.

The puzzle of play The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.

It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?

Has lockdown made your pet extra clingy?

43% of people think they can get a sense of someone’s personality by their picture.

If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

The most technically impressive feats of animation often strike us as eerie instead of impressive, and it’s all thanks to the uncanny valley.

In “Off the Edge”, journalist Kelly Weill dives down the strange rabbit hole of the flat-Earther community.

From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is often labeled a quintessential Spanish artist, but his allegiance may well have lied with the French Enlightenment instead.

The apes taught sign language didn’t understand what they were doing. They were merely “aping” their caretakers.

Our bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein, and this can lead to a vicious cycle.