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The brain appears to remember immune responses, and memories can trigger them to happen again. This might explain some psychosomatic illnesses.

Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?

Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.

There’s a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.

Your very own “Conspiracy Detection Kit.”

Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.

Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.

You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?

Salk scientists studied complex decision-making capabilities in a worm with just 302 neurons and a mouth full of teeth. It’s smarter than you would think.

The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.

When supermassive black holes merge, they emit more energy than anything else to occur in our Universe except the Big Bang.

I hate grading. I love teaching, though, and giving students feedback is teaching.

Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.

From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.

On November 25, U.N. members will meet in South Korea to cap off a series of meetings aiming to reduce global plastic pollution.

A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.

While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?

Experts explain how lie detectors work, what happens in the brain when we tell lies and how accurate polygraph tests are.

Albert Camus was a Franco-Algerian philosopher with some great insights on the meaning of life, why you should look to this life and not the next, and why suicide is a poor choice.

Volunteering at a food bank, doing a coding workshop, or taking an online course might earn you micro-credentials.

The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.

Business advisor Michael C. Fillios has developed a repeatable playbook for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to add value from technology.

The truth is out there.

The holograms use ‘aerohaptics’, which creates feelings of touch with simple jets of air.

Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years.

With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.

What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.

A radical proposal reimagines Europe as a carbon-neutral continent where national boundaries are replaced by regions defined by renewable energy capabilities.

Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.

Cal Newport explains how you and your teams can accomplish more while improving quality and supercharging workplace morale.