(via Cool Worlds) The "Great Filter" is a pivotal idea in astrobiology. It may very well explain the Fermi Paradox. Today we ...

Vitamins in pregnancy are usually discussed in terms of a baby’s health at birth. But could the amount of vitamin D taken ...

In the 1850s, German scientists were trying to figure out how to weigh a forest – but they weren’t particularly interested in ...

Scientists have reconstructed the complete genome of a real person, with full sets of chromosomes from each parent, a ...

The recent confirmation of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet called LHS 1140b has created a wave of interest within the ...

In 1869, an explorer found himself in a Utah canyon that, as far as he knew, shouldn't have existed. The Green River he was ...

One popular answer to the Fermi Paradox is that advanced civilizations develop artificial intelligence and simply lose ...

Your bones may seem like the most permanent part of your body: hard, solid and finished. In reality, they’re under constant ...

Dinosaurs are famous for being big, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex to the colossal Apatosaurus. But a new study ...

Cancer cells have a voracious appetite for sugar — using it to fuel their rapid growth. This is why many scientists have ...

When people encounter new information that challenges their expectations, their pupils are likely to dilate. This ...

What enables us to sustain effort toward goals, even when the task becomes increasingly difficult? A recent study by ...