“I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient.”
The James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists learn about the cosmic dark ages and how they ended.
Psychological safety plays a key role in fostering innovation and collaborative group dynamics where all team members feel comfortable being themselves.
The design was as intricate as that of modern-day, factory-fabricated denim jeans, and just as durable. The ancients had fashion.
Helplessness isn’t learned — it’s an instinctual response that can be overcome.
In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here’s what we’ve learned.
About six minutes after the heart stops, the brain essentially dies.
Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?
Science and the humanities have been antagonistic for too long. Many of the big questions of our time require them to work closer than ever.
Salk scientists studied complex decision-making capabilities in a worm with just 302 neurons and a mouth full of teeth. It’s smarter than you would think.
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.
The idea that the news can make you sick has a long history.
We imagine and debate the inner lives of literary characters, knowing there can be no truth about their real motives or beliefs. Could our own inner lives also be works of fiction?
Scientists at the San Diego Zoo are on a mission to resurrect the extinct northern white rhino.
Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.
When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four “spikes” coming from it. Here’s why Webb will have more.
If love is an addiction, your first love is the first dose.
Can stories help us become more creative?
Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.
In the Saudi Arabian desert, the Al Naslaa rock formation looks completely unnatural. Its perfectly vertical split remains a mystery.
Knowing that technology would advance in the future, NASA put some moon rock samples into storage without opening them. Now, they have.
It is normal for parents to experience intrusive thoughts about harming their children. Don’t let the thoughts worry you.
Syllipsimopodi bideni is small (about 12cm in length), has ten arms, suckers, fins, and a triangular pen of hard tissue inside its body for support.
Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.
The far infrared reveals both the coldest and hottest gas in the Universe, and can teach us what no other wavelength range can.
The insects were just as accurate as trained dogs, although not as cuddly.
