With more than 100 million neurons in the digestive tract, the gut is commonly known as the “second brain” in numerous ...

For the first time, scientists have observed how tiny metal "thorns" called dendrites sprout inside lithium-ion batteries, ...

It would have been strange to read an article in the 1980s about Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika reforms that ...

A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to “see” images from memory rather than what’s actually in front of it. Long before modern laboratory testing, i ...

(via Big Think) 75,000 years before the first city was built, humans were already engineering their world with a ...

At age 44, Xie Qiuping cut her hair for the first time in over three decades. Her impressive locks extended over 5 meters — ...

A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to “see” images from memory rather than what’s actually in front of it. Long before modern ...

Earth has been around for 4.543 billion years. At numerous times during that long history, our planet has shared itself with the rest of the Solar System, particularly with our immediate neighbors. Sc ...

Garching, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Randolf Pohl from the Institute for Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ...

Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

A new analysis of a shinbone from the oldest known giant tyrannosaur in North America suggests that the 'king of dinosaurs,' Tyrannosaurus rex, may have had an unusually large ancestor. The fossil, ...