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Here’s how to appreciate them from a distance.

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

Pain relievers like acetaminophen and ibuprofen are made with chemicals derived from oil. Scientists have shown how to make them from trees.

“I want to change the way we think about the past altogether,” says Dr. Betül Kaçar, an astrobiologist who studies the origin of life.

Studies claiming to reveal strategies for feeling happy get a second look.

This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.

Neuroscientists hope to learn more in the hope of finding a way to reverse dementia.

In “Moral Ambition,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.

The paradox of failure explains why even a healthy rage-quit won’t keep a good gamer down.

Orchids continue to elude science.

Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.

Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?

Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about how it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.

For some reason, the bodies of deceased monks stay “fresh” for a long time.

Temporal lobe epilepsy seems to rewire a part of the brain that’s key to storing memories.

Gain-of-function mutation research may help predict the next pandemic — or, critics argue, cause one.

These pink feathered folk form complex social networks and are choosy about who they spend their time with, according to a new study.

A 2017 University of Wisconsin-Madison study was the first of it’s kind to show structural differences in the psychopathic brain.

A recent study on monkeys found that stimulating a certain part of the forebrain wakes monkeys from anesthesia.

There are scientifically proven ways you can improve your self-esteem, right now.

Your cat thinks your taste stinks. Also that you’re mingy with the laser pointer.

A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated.

A large study evaluated stress levels across 493 cities in the United States, using nine different metrics. The analysis returned these five least stressful cities in America.

We found 10 video games that kids will love (and they’ll secretly be learning, too).

Unless we take action, climate change will have a major, far-reaching impact on the internet.

Are we witnessing evolution in real time?

Starting this fall, public schools in Florida will be required to display the words “In God We Trust” in a noticeable place within each building used by a district.

This 100-year-old map, originally made for American consumption, highlights the famines that swept across Europe after WWI.

The dream of multi-messenger astronomy is to seen an event with gravitational waves, neutrinos, and light all together. The newest candidate just might get us there. When it comes to cataclysmic […]

The first planet beyond ‘naked eye’ astronomy will pass within just 1° of Mars. Although there are eight major planets in the Solar System, most of us never see Uranus or […]