This discovery may also help us develop novel drugs for Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and ADHD.

AI has identified six new dolphin clicks we never knew existed.

A team of researchers reverses the arrow of time in quantum experiments.

The highest concentration in Europe of places named after saints? Galicia, in Spain. 

The case of a 7-year-old Australian boy who was supposed to lose sight at two weeks old but can still see has stunned scientists.

Another scintillating installment of Comment of the Week is here. Did you make the cut? 

The UN has commissioned a study of extreme poverty in the most of one of the world’s wealthiest nations, the United States.

For older adults, playing video games isn't just a way for older adults to keep in touch with the younger generation — it might be also be a way to stay in touch with memory itself.

Scientists identify for the first time two specific genes that may foster a predisposition for being gay in men.

Limiting smartphone exposure in teens is probably a good idea. It’s also easier said than done.

Researchers create a new form of matter, first theorized 50 years ago.

The first component of a planned “space kingdom” has been launched into orbit.

100,000 years of human history and young adulthood is still getting weirder. Noël Wells on art, power, and our super dark times. 

What's really involved in snuffing out a country’s nuclear capabilities—and is that the right war to be waging?

Imagine a world in which all the babies born each day were randomly redistributed among the biological parents. The infant assigned to any given set of parents could be white, black, Asian, Hispanic, Native...

That same pattern is seen in chimps and orangutans, primatologists say.

A silent gif is sweeping the web because many people think they can hear it.

Emotions are the language of the unconscious, and in day-to-day life, they prevent us from sinking beneath an overwhelming flood of information. 

Is "alloparenting" the end of family as we know it?  

Americans are, often with justification, regarded as not being versed in philosophy. This is a shame, as the United States and the colonies that proceeded it have produced many great thinkers