Studies have revealed that penguins, and we are not joking, can control the weather. To really understand and manage climate ...

What would happen if we launched nuclear waste into the Sun? As nuclear power expands and more spent nuclear fuel is produced ...

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, ...

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When Channel 4 announced that it would air a documentary titled The Great ADHD Myth?, an outpouring of fury followed. Despite this, I set out to approach it as a scientist – not just as a scientist ...

Geneticist Nir Barzilai’s work has helped drive a new approach to medicine. Instead of treating individual diseases, his research has supported the idea that targeting the biology of aging with drugs ...

One of the greatest achievements of the past 100 years is learning our place in the Universe: where it came from, how it got to be the way it is today, and what its ultimate fate will be. A century ...

For most animals, growing older changes more than their own bodies. A mother’s age can also shape the health, lifespan and reproductive success of her offspring — sometimes for more than one ...

A cave in Africa seems to host the oldest known traces of humans using fire. Burnt remnants of animal bones hint that groups of Homo erectus used fires here as long as 1.8 million years ago. The site ...

One does not need a doctorate in mathematics to split 12 eager trivia buffs into two competitive teams. But consider that each person arrives with unique strengths and liabilities: One may be a ...