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Work on “memes” by Richard Dawkins provides insight on the spread of thought viruses.

A new study shows that cerebral blood flow within the left and right hippocampus significantly decreases after just 10 days of without exercise.

Bill Nye laughs in the face of the robo-pocalypse. Or more accurately, he laughs at those who worry that AI might run amok. If we build robots that want to kill us, he says, we can just unplug them.

Japanese doctors reveal how AI software helped save the life of a cancer patient.

Google’s DeepMind creates AI that blows away existing speech synthesizers. 

Just imagining movement fires the same neurons as if we were actually moving. A new study shows we can wake our sleeping mind to practice motor skills in our dreams.  

A second major California fault line has been found near the San Andreas Fault.

A Yale study finds implicit racial bias in a study of 132 white and black preschool educators, but in different ways.

Instead of an autoimmune disorder, scientists now believe a conspiracy of pathogens cause it. 

And the wisdom from an exclusive interview with Larry Niven. Ever since humanity had the thought that the distant, twinkling stars might be Suns like our own, with their own planetary […]

Racial bias has been around forever it seems, but it can show up in ugly ways on apps like Airbnb and Nextdoor. Here’s what they’re planning to do about it.

Many predictions by Nikola Tesla, one of the world’s most celebrated inventors, have already come true and some might in the near future.

It’s tempting to rush success, but Amy Cuddy, professor at Harvard Business School, explains why setting your goals too big can backfire, and vouches for the value of incremental change and authentic learning over the desire to simply ‘win’.

How the James Webb Space Telescope was made. “One way or another the first stars must have influenced our own history, beginning with stirring up everything and producing the other chemical […]

A new community planned for Amsterdam will provide all of its own food and energy, without negatively impacting the environment.

The FBI’s “face recognition unit” was overwhelmingly made up of “non-criminal entries,” Georgetown researchers found.    

This offers hope in the face of a disease which currently has no treatment option to halt its progression.   

Looking into the great, dark unknown was a mystery for thousands of years. No longer! “Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a […]

A team of Harvard researchers 3D prints a fully autonomous octopus-like robot that runs on a chemical reaction.

Is stellar ejection a real thing, and if so, can planets come along for the ride? “Mapping out the elements in a star is like reading its DNA. We’re using those […]

The Perseid meteor shower is coming, which may put you in the mindset to wonder “What causes a meteor shower?”

ScienceDebate.org sent 20 fine-tuned questions to the presidential candidates. 3 out of 4 of them responded. Here’s where they stand on key science issues.

Media strategist, writer, and college drop-out Ryan Holiday questions whether college is just an expensive way to go through the motions.

Anti-Islam fervor has overlooked important artistic contributions made by Muslim artists around the world. 

The series is said to improve male performance and address any issues.   

France is building a solar energy system on top of its roadways.

According to Elon Musk, it’ll only take between 40 and 100 years to achieve a fully self-sustaining civilization on Mars. Here’s how. 

In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre showed how warp drive could be made real within General Relativity. What does that imply? “Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new […]

In the depths of intergalactic space, the Big Bang’s leftover glow is just 2.73 K. But this spot in our own galaxy is even colder. “If you want your boomerang to […]

In the digital era, you have two choices: unplug your modem or bear witness to the world. Virginia Heffernan explains how the internet is more than an entertainment arena, it’s also a courtroom floor.