Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers.

The silliest science awards of the year are here, but the Ig Nobels aren’t just funny business

If we’re to reach another star, chemical propulsion will not get us there in any reasonable time frame. We’re going to need a different propulsion technology, and one of the most promising seems to be...

So many of life’s most pivotal decisions come down to one question: Should you listen to your logic or your emotions? Popular culture often frames this tension as a struggle between two minds — a “mor...

Spirals, ellipticals, irregulars, oh my!

A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...

Neuroscience is revealing how our brains are wired for narrative

I realized relying on AI was making me a less critical scientist, this clinician-researcher writes

Psychedelics can create a new “hidden order” in brain activity that could explain how these drugs alter our sense of self

For years, neuroscientists have sought to reconcile conflicting findings about how brain activity relates to blood flow. A new study suggests that the answer lies in a hidden balance between two oppos...

An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit

Someone talked about ‘reincarnation,’ or a desire for reincarnation in some cultures, as an addiction. Here is a response… Perhaps only in part, for this – reincarnation &#8…

The Indigenous and Descendants of Immigrants in America A quiet summer day at the local Public Library’s second-hand book shop, ‘The FriendsPlace.’ I volunteered there as a cashie…

Newly found earthworks suggest about 3 million people might have lived in just about 3% of the forest’s entire area

A Stanford Medicine study taps artificial intelligence to find a naturally occurring molecule called a peptide that suppressed appetite and led to weight loss in mice and pigs.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes the technological singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses humans intelligence, is here.

More than a year after failed clinical trial, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine promises “serious action”

The vertebrate retina differs dramatically from that in all other animal eyes. In this review, Kafetzis et al. argue that, before the vertebrates, a series of lifestyle changes in ‘our’ lineage led to...

Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their resilience has many implications for us.

The European continent is facing a dual reckoning this summer—extreme heat is killing thousands and draining its rivers, soils and reservoirs at a record pace

The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive.

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself

A 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations

An ultracold atomic gas is used as a self-contained miniuniverse to show that time can be defined without an external clock. It's demonstrated that entropy exchange between different sectors of the sy...

The passports feature an image of President Trump and are only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency — and only by appointment.

On the way back home from a tutoring class, I stopped by a local Home Depot – the wall-mounted wireless unit of my garage door opener had become temperamental and needed replacement. It is, o…