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Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.

Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.

Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”

On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.

To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.

When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.

From the Notre Dame to Buddhist statues, dozens of irreplaceable artifacts are destroyed every year by both man and nature.

Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top. 

Perfectionism is on the rise, and its consequences for mental health can be devastating. The Japanese philosophy of “wabi sabi” can help.

We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.

A new artificial intelligence method removes the effect of gravity on cosmic images, showing the real shapes of distant galaxies.

Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.

A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.

What do we mean by a black hole’s size? A photon sphere? The minimal stable orbit? The event horizon? The singularity? Which one is right?

It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.

How slight differences could have forever changed our cosmic history. 13.8 billion years ago, what we know today as our Universe began with the hot Big Bang. Filled with matter, antimatter […]

Psychedelics have been shown to help reduce depression. This study may show us why.

Are some of us simple destined for unhappiness?

For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?

It is normal for parents to experience intrusive thoughts about harming their children. Don’t let the thoughts worry you.

Scientists looked for ways to trigger the “build whatever normally was here” signal for cells at the site of a wound.

Back in 1970, Sister Mary Jucunda wrote NASA, decrying large investments in science. A former Nazi’s legendary response is still relevant.

A recent study analyzed the skulls of early Homo species to learn more about the evolution of primate brains.

Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?

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

We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.

Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.

Why are the rest masses of fundamental particles related like this? When it comes to the nature of matter in the Universe, the Standard Model describes the known elementary particles perfectly […]

The paper-thin device may also someday be used to stimulate bone growth.

The ancient Greeks were obsessed with geometry, which may have formed the basis of their philosophical cosmology.