In 1989, 1990, and 1991, there were three back-to-back fatal irradiator accidents in El Salvador, Israel, and Belarus. This ...

For a long time now, the idea of a fourth dimension has hovered at the edge of science and science fiction, a concept so ...

This idea of “alpha males” has dominated pop culture for a while now. But here’s the thing–it’s built on bad science. What ...

A few weeks ago, technicians inside a cavernous clean room in Maryland made the final connection to complete assembly of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Parts of this new observatory, named ...

For almost three decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been one of the main tools in brain research. Yet ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

A newly reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is offering rare insight into the earliest migrations of ...

Reducing social isolation protects the brain in later life . Pathological cognitive decline is most often driven by Alzheimer ...

Imagine if a simple blood test could offer a glimpse into your future health. Not just whether you have heart disease or ...

Imagine if a simple blood test could offer a glimpse into your future health. Not just whether you have heart disease or cancer today, but whether your overall risk of dying in the ...

(via TEDEd) As winter approaches, shorter days spark a cascade of changes within the brains of animals. As a result, groundhogs retreat to their burrows for hibernation, weasels’ coats turn from brown ...