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We’re still using 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid a year, but burials are becoming far less common.

If future studies prove it to be successful, this technique for the early detection of pancreatic cancer could save thousands of lives.

Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.

Many of us look at black holes as cosmic vacuum cleaners: sucking in everything in their vicinity. But it turns out they don’t suck at all.

Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.

Embedded in a cell phone or in accessories such as rings, bracelets or watches, the novel tools aim to make it easier to manage hypertension. But they must still pass several tests before hitting the clinic.

No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.

Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.

We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.

Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.

Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.

They could also “turn off” their fear.

Today, supermassive black holes and their host galaxies tell a specific story in terms of mass. But JWST reveals a different story early on.

The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.

Yes, there are reasons to worry about Twitter, but it’s not about the bots.

Since mid-2022, JWST has been showing us how the Universe grows up, from planets to galaxies and more. So, what’s its biggest find of all?

Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we’re uncovering our own history.

All the stars, stellar corpses, planets, and other large, massive objects take on spherical or spheroidal shapes. Why is that universal?

The study shows that it’s possible to map the wildly subjective psychedelic experiences to specific brain regions.

The laws of physics don’t prefer matter over antimatter. So how can we be certain that distant stars & galaxies aren’t made of antimatter?

The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.

“Superjobs” – roles that integrate human and machine skills – will require careful consideration.

Though Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” is a classic military treatise, its advice applies to all manner of conflict.

The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.

Crafting an effective learning and development strategy can be challenging. Here are five key considerations.

Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.

On Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had […]

Human organs don’t always show up where doctors expect.

The new brain tumor treatment targets a cancer that kills 75% of patients within a year.

Between fake vaccine passports and targeted supply chain attacks, things are only getting more risky.