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Dive into seven texts that continue to shape Western philosophy, from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece’s brightest minds.

Alzheimer’s disease is frightening, but the right combination of lifestyle choices can reduce your risk.

Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.

Particle physics needs a new collider to supersede the Large Hadron Collider. Muons, not electrons or protons, might hold the key.

In 1995, Hubble peered at the Pillars of Creation, forever changing our view. Now in 2022, JWST completes the star-forming puzzle.

There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?

An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.

Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.

Mars and Earth were sister planets in many ways, with early similar conditions. Why did Mars die? The leading explanation isn’t universal.

With the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.

Explore the key highlights from the UN’s latest release of its world population estimates.

Reading classic books can inform you as much about the present as the past.

Could we all attain this superpower?

The idea that “you” persist after death does not hold up to the current understanding of memory and identity.

The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there’s a bright side.

About 2.5% of women and 2.2% of men in the U.S. meet the criteria for body dysmorphic disorder.

Did fire change the development of the human brain?

As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing Earth to spiral outward in its orbit. Will that cool the Earth down, or will other effects win out?

Ages 30 to 45 are now “the rush hour of life.”

Gravitational waves carry enormous amounts of energy, but spread out quickly once they leave the source. Could they ever create black holes?

Treating “oniomania” or compulsive buying disorder is about protecting your finances as well as your mental health.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.

Children as young as three have been defined for life by IQ tests.

The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.

Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.

A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials.

Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.

Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.

50 years ago, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit radiation and eventually decay away. That fate may now apply to everything.

Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.