Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life.

Close to 70% of drugs advertised on TV offer little to no benefit over other cheaper drugs.

Sniffing out a deal.

In Einstein’s relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.

One study suggested that the “Methuselah Star” is older than the Universe itself.

These 5 research-backed tips can turn bad habits into financial gain.

There is a strong case to be made that the China has moved too slowly to reverse the effects of its one-child policy.

Created in the 1880s, “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan,” which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.

Some objects were softer than others.

It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.

Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won’t.

In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst blasts out the same amount of energy that the Sun will radiate throughout its entire life.

The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.

Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.

When we don’t find ways to relieve chronic stress, personal burnout is the likely consequence.

Give yourself (and others) a break.

Humanity’s newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.

Has the “age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?

Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.

Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.

Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.

Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.

Despite being called the “dismal science,” economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.

A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.

It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.

Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.

A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.

If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.

Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?

Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.