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Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.

Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.

In Germany and France, having an Anglo-Saxon first name is a good predictor of extreme voting behavior.

According to a story doing the rounds on social media, organ transplant patients can take on the personalities of their donors. Don’t believe the hype.

The interdisciplinary approach both to research and learning is starting to gain favor again because small and nimble research labs are proving that they have a method for speeding the pace and reducing the cost of discovery. 

Small and nimble research labs are proving that they have a method for speeding the pace and reducing the cost of discovery. 

What if you could bottle President Obama’s famous cool, Lady Gaga’s style and Michael Phelps’s athleticism? An experimental philosopher is attempting to do just that. Sort of. 

A new venture aims to foster stability in war-torn regions through an act of creative destruction: acquiring AK-47s and transforming them into rare jewelry, watches and accessories.

A new venture aims to foster stability in war-torn regions through an act of creative destruction: acquiring AK-47s and transforming them into rare jewelry, watches and accessories.

Timmermann imagines the actor on-screen.

Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.

While GLP-1 agonists help people lose weight, different drugs could help them retain muscle at the same time.

Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

A new study provides the most detailed look at brains on psychedelics to date.

The simulation gave researchers some of the first concrete data linking climate change to human evolution and speciation.

Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.

Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.

Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.

If the laws of physics are symmetrical as we think they are, then the Big Bang should have created matter and antimatter in the same amount.

They say that seein’ is believin’. But everything we see has to have a scientific explanation. When you look at the Sun on a day where there’s a clear sky, […]

A DNA study looks for the home of the earliest modern humans.

A team of Japanese researchers comes across a remarkably simple trick.

Have sexual interludes obscured the path to love?

Jewish people living in nearly all European countries report that anti-Semitism has grown in recent years.

A new study compares the psychedelic DMT with near-death experiences.

Marketers have long used envy as a tactic to sell products, but a new study suggests that it only works on people with a high sense of self-esteem.

Boaty McBoatface could have been a billion-dollar brand that re-invigorated science education, but now its epic failure is a lesson for the rest of us.

We talked to a scientist who studies the afterlife and near-death experiences.

Several interpretations of the Constitution say that Trump has already broken the law by threatening free speech concerning the NFL. When can we start impeachment proceedings?