Bite into a miracle berry and you’ll perceive intense sweetness — but only after you eat something acidic, too.

Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.

Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.

Hormonal birth control for women may elevate the risk of depression and suicide, but so does pregnancy itself.

The odds are slim, but the consequences would be devastating. Here’s what would happen, plus how to avoid it.

The gaze of another person can make us conceive of our body as an object.

Soviet researchers studied crime through a Marxist-Leninist lens. Under Lenin, a humanitarian approach to criminality briefly emerged, but dissipated when Stalin rose to power. 

Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.

What makes a face trustworthy, anyway?

Psychologists often view relationship power imbalances through three unique dynamics.

About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it? 

Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.

Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.

Choking under pressure seems to have deep evolutionary roots.

Take a look at the Times Square Totem, the Trafalgar Square Pyramid, and other landmarks that were never built.

If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?

The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.

Painkillers have nasty side effects, such as organ damage or addiction. Researchers have discovered a new drug that may cause none of these.

After it became clear that the world wasn’t 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.

Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.

Ingesting tiny doses of hallucinogens might not have the outsized benefits that some people claim it does.

To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?

Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.

Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers around the world condemned them as an “invasive weed” that caused mental illnesses and even murder.

The story of dog domestication is one of converting the wild wolf into man’s nicer, smarter, best friend. It might be all wrong.

A study proposes that an ancient trading network, called the Hopewell tradition, may have been wiped out by what is known as a cosmic airburst.

With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.

One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.

We value human life in a way that assumes we possess a sacred something not found in beings like lambs, turkeys, or mosquitoes.

How much we enjoy a conversation can all be a matter of timing — specifically, how long it takes us to respond to what was just said.