Aristotle's ancient virtues play a vital role in today's war.

Data from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos suggest that long durations in space cause changes in the brain, some of which are linked to vision problems.

Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.

Thanks to genetic clues, scientists discovered that an old stroke therapy that had abandoned for decades might just work.

Capturing energy from clubbers could help power homes and buildings.

From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.

There are many things in life that cannot be improved with greater effort. Sometimes, life requires that you step back.

Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?

It's the clitoris, stupid!

Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Black cat crossed your path?

Singapore is a breeding ground of truly green buildings.

Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.

And debate over it started soon after.

Astronomers in 2017 caught an image of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy far, far away. Doing it in our own galaxy is a huge milestone.

Were Hitler’s SS henchmen willing executioners fueled by racial propaganda or mindless servants vying for promotions?

After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way's central black hole looks like.

In Sun-like stars, hydrogen gets fused into helium. In the Big Bang, hydrogen fusion also makes helium. But they aren't close to the same.

Paintings played an important role in these ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, pigment is not nearly as durable as marble.

The apes taught sign language didn't understand what they were doing. They were merely "aping" their caretakers.

The Spanish language has the ability to minimize and exaggerate by the simple addition of a suffix.

Science cannot be isolated from culture.

Why do some corporate training programs fail? Here are five reasons. 

To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.

Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.

We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.

Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?

Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.

Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.

Equations that describe time travel are fully compatible and consistent with relativity — but physics is not mathematics.