Radioactive boars and bunnies won’t let us forget about the nuclear disaster.
A historian makes the case for Earth’s closest neighbor.
The National Academy of Sciences is urging people to focus less on the process and more on the product.
The pain of isolation may be what motivates people to make friends.
The island nation got none of its power from coal-fired power plants last week.
That’s the milestone the International Space Station reached yesterday. To celebrate, the U.S. National Laboratory aboard the ISS posted…
The forensic technique is becoming ever more common—and ever less reliable.
So why do people behave as though it is?
The space laboratory has now traveled about 2.6 billion miles since 1998.
How do you account for taste?
Researchers must work their way backward to understand the mutations that made the disease a pandemic.
It is not an innocuous decision.
Half a billion dollars are being pledged to study the microbes in humans, crops, soils, oceans, and more.
In which the red knot is the canary, and the planet is the coalmine.
It’s not your fault you can’t learn from them, it’s how your brain is wired.
Where the quest to understand the most mysterious star in the galaxy stands today.
Yesterday’s press release was potentially dangerous.
And it could make the search for life on other planets much more difficult.
A huge study found 74 gene variants that are associated with years of formal schooling—but that doesn’t mean there are “education genes.”
As far as facial expressions go, the eye-roll is one of the more deliberate forms of expressing contempt.
The brain projects its own qualities onto the world around it—for better or worse.
A computer can’t match a human’s ability to identify cosmic objects, but recent advances in machine learning are helping to close the gap.