The dark genome makes up 98% of human DNA. Scientists are just beginning to understand its role in cognitive disorders.
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The stars, planets, and many moons are extremely round. Why don’t they take other shapes?
A biotech startup has received $15 million in funding to genetically recreate woolly mammoths and rewild them in Siberia.
Carbon dating allows us to know exactly when ice was melted for drinking water in pre-Columbian America.
Finding out we’re not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here’s how we could do it.
Massive objects like black holes, stars, and rogue planets routinely pass near our Solar System. An ensuing comet storm could destroy us.
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider “explaining what you know” to an actual expert in the field.
Multiple lines of evidence — physical, chemical, and biological — must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
Impressive but deadly physics underlie catastrophic eruptions.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
There was a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense, but also some profoundly major advances. Here are the biggest ones you may have missed.
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
The simulation gave researchers some of the first concrete data linking climate change to human evolution and speciation.
Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.
A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
Haters and disrespect aside, fruitcake is still a robust American tradition.
You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.
Russia has long sought to erase the mere idea of Ukraine. But people like my grandmother, born in Druzhkivka, will not let Russia win.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]
Popular diets view health as a calorie-crunching equation while excluding a critical variable: mental wellness.
There were at least four major climate catastrophes that reshaped global religion. It could be happening again.