Health Statins aren’t overprescribed. Maybe we should put them in our drinking water A doctor once joked that statins will be added to the water supply. Humor aside, the data shows that statins really are a "wonder drug."
The Well Habits change your life. Here’s how to change your habits. Willpower alone likely isn't enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.
Strange Maps If the ancient Romans had Google Maps OmnesViae is a modern route planner based on the roads of the Roman Empire.
Life How common is life in the Universe? And how can we find out? Some astrobiologists believe life is rare, while others believe it is common in the Universe. How can we find out which view is correct?
Neuropsych Video games: study suggests they boost intelligence in children Screens were around in previous generations, but now they truly define childhood.
Starts With A Bang Ask Ethan: Could dark matter be decaying… into dark energy? Over time, the Universe becomes less dominated by dark matter and more dominated by dark energy. Is one transforming into the other?
The Present Rooftop gardens can help alleviate heat in cities, study finds An effect called the "urban heat island" means that temperatures are often 10 degrees higher in cities, according to NASA.
Neuropsych What makes someone an “asshole”? We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life's biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?
L&D Strategy Immersive learning 101: Benefits and best practices Immersive learning creates an interactive environment in which learners have the power to customize their experience.
The Future Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is possible. How badly do we want it? The Hyperloop is physically possible, but engineering challenges will make its construction very difficult. Also, accidents would be catastrophic.
Starts With A Bang Why Elon Musk’s Hyperloop won’t work for humans The hyperloop would be a great idea for a completely flat planet. With topography and infrastructure, it's a very different story.
Hard Science A rare “black widow” binary has the shortest orbit yet "The pulsar sort of consumes the thing that recycled it, just as the spider eats its mate.”
Neuropsych Chatter: The dark side of your inner voice Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
Health Blood test can calculate your true biological age Your old-fashioned chronological age is just a number. Your biological age can tell you how healthy you really are.
Starts With A Bang Dark energy is here to stay, and a “Big Crunch” isn’t coming 13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here's why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn't how it will end.
Hard Science Why is Titan’s landscape so Earth-like despite its different composition? The answer may lie in the particular way sand forms on Titan.
High Culture How Bernini sculpted the Roman Catholic Church during the Counter-Reformation Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
The Future How electric eels inspired the first battery two centuries ago Now they're pointing the way to future battery technologies.
The Past The mysterious origins of human sacrifice Human sacrifice appears to be as old as humanity itself. Still, experts disagree on how and where the practice first originated.
Starts With A Bang Could “nuclear clocks” drive a technological revolution? Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
Thinking 4 categories of pseudoscience — and how to talk to people who believe in them Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
The Future Alexa and her friends know you all too well But does Amazon know when you're tired or hungry?
Health What is monkeypox? A microbiologist explains What you need to know about this smallpox cousin.
Neuropsych Identical twins were raised in different countries. Here’s how they differ today. Will nature or nurture win out?
Thinking Is China’s communism a new ideology or traditional philosophy rebranded? Did traditional Chinese thought pave the way for the philosophy of Maoism?
Starts With A Bang Voyager 1 has left the Solar System. Will we ever overtake it? In all of human history, only 5 spacecraft have had the right trajectory to exit the Solar System. Will they ever catch Voyager 1?