Academic science is a tale of broken incentives. Scholars must choose whether to publish what advances their career or to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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