Sex work, the exchange of sexual labor for money, goods, or other resources, has likely been a facet of human society since ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, ...

Being born pre-term (before 37 weeks of development) at a very low birth weight (less than 1500 grams, or 3.3 pounds) is ...

People who take part in screening for colorectal cancer may have as much as 43 per cent lower risk of dying from the disease, ...

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is boosting grass growth in Africa’s water-limited savannas, according to a new study led ...

The brain's ability to generate quick, nimble volitional thought—and a unified awareness of thought and experience—arises ...

The moon is a hostile place for life as we know it. Extreme temperatures aside, intense ultraviolet (UV) radiation pummels ...

Some people just seem to be mosquito magnets; in one scientific study, 20 percent of the people ended up with 95 percent of ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of matter. Inside a cooled crystal, structures spontaneously arranged themselves into a ...

Back in the 1980s, researchers studying animal venom reported that Gila monster venom caused pancreatic enlargement in guinea ...

If humanity ever makes contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization, we will have no shortage of questions.

Elon Musk’s talk about maintaining a million-strong AI data center satellite megaconstellation may not exactly be practical or economical, but it might be unique. It’s about the closest we’ve come to ...