As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, ...

The most massive land animals in the world all eat little stuff: grass and leaves. And almost all of the most massive aquatic ...

This is one of the most fascinating unsolved problems in cosmology, and it almost never gets talked about outside of research ...

Recent discoveries and therapeutic developments in longevity science have made it increasingly clear that a vast amount of age-related damage and systemic changes at the level of molecules, organelles ...

When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it in the most efficient way. But work so far has generally not done so, writes ...

The Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, just published by the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) and ...

My ex once told me, mid-argument, that I was the most unempathetic person he’d ever met. It was a low blow. I’m a clinical ...

The World Stroke Organization is warning that climate change poses an escalating threat to brain health, with extreme heat in ...

Mark and Jesse’s year-long study of East River eDNA “Biomonitoring in the Anthropocene: Urban estuary environmental DNA ...

(via PBS Terra) The United States is the tornado capital of the world, but the "Tornado Alley" we all grew up learning about ...

Many plastic products are designed to be used only once, yet the material itself lasts for years. But a new strategy is ...

Researchers have identified previously unknown materials, including a new form of a widely studied clean-energy material, by ...