The claims and reality of longevity research

The organ sustains the fetus, manages the mother’s physiology, and may yield surprising insights into numerous illnesses — including cancer.

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

Wired's Andy Greenberg explains how a cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia trapped computer engineers into defrauding victims of billions of dollars. Plus, he discusses the scam involving Fresh Air.

On the island of Taiwan a company called TSMC produces 90 percent of the advanced microchips that power Elon Musk’s electric cars and space rockets, Ap...

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.

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A paradigm-shifting achievement, built from the author’s own research, showing that pregnancy profoundly transforms our brains even more than adolescence does. Dispels “mommy brain”...

Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.

How the way we obtain information shapes our brain

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A collection of the latest books on evolution for Darwin’s birthday.

The federal persecution of immigrants and white citizens alike lays bare the unstable logic of in-group power.

The updated page casts aside decades of research by scientists around the world, which has found no link between childhood vaccines and autism.

“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from...

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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Carl Zimmer is an award-winning New York Times columnist and author of 15 books about science. His talk, "Science, science communications and science jo...