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A placebo-controlled study found that oxytocin seems to significantly reduce romantic jealousy among people in intimate relationships.
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More than anything, he’s terrified the U.S. is becoming a nation permanently at war.
Strengthen your focus like a muscle.
We need more science fiction-inspired thinking in how we approach AI research, argues AI expert Gary Marcus.
Asteroid 2024 YR4, which could devastate a city's worth of humans, has gone from 1.2% to 2.3% to 2.6% to 3.1% chances of impact. Here's why.
Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.
Is a repressed memory always so bad?
A deep dive into the chaotic journey of star formation.
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.
Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
When Olympic athletes perform dazzling feats of athletic prowess, they are using the same principles of physics that gave birth to stars and planets.
Sir Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs, with more coming — a claim that is not widely accepted within the cosmology community.
Music, journaling, and spending time with your pets are all science-backed ways to boost mental health during stressful times.
No amount of "brute force" would make stop such a storm, experts say.
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We may not learn and grow beyond the #MeToo era if we keep thinking in black and white, says comedian Pete Holmes.
Research by neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory helps explain how the brain regulates arousal.
The buildings of the future will be fluid, impermanent, and in constant transformation. But will human nature catch up?
The hundreds of people that show up for flat Earth conventions are not the problem. What this type of thinking leads to is.
“To promote the development of a commercial asteroid resources industry for outer space in the United States and to increase the exploration and utilization of asteroid resources in outer space.”
Charles Koch Foundation
A new study suggests that viewing materialistic media—even for a minute—can influence people to harbor stronger anti-welfare attitudes.
A glass of juice has as much sugar, ounce for ounce, as a full-calorie soda. And those vitamins do almost nothing.
A new study attempts to figure out why the motor cortex sometimes synchronizes to speech as the auditory cortex does.
Sedna could be the very first known object from the Inner Oort Cloud. But time is running out to create and launch a mission. In 2003, scientists discovered an object beyond […]
In 2015, the United States brokered a revolutionary international deal with Iran about their nuclear programme. Here’s the science behind it. In 2015, a historic agreement was reached between Iran and […]
Prince William and Kate Middleton have welcomed their third child to the royal family. Find out where the new royal baby falls in the line of succession to the throne.
In her new memoir, Duke Divinity School professor Kate Bowler opens up about battling Stage IV cancer.