Recently, finance and insurance experts have begun warning that climate change might spell the end of capitalism as we know it. Blind alarmism or reasonable fear? Let’s ...

The awe-inspiring visuals of the Aurora Borealis have fascinated humanity for centuries, but its most enduring mystery lies not in what we see but what some have claimed to hear for ge ...

A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with ...

For almost 60 years, measuring cholesterol levels in the blood has been the best way to identify individuals at high risk of ...

Artificial intelligence-based writing assistants are popping up everywhere – from phones to email apps to social media ...

I recently interviewed Daniel Toker, a 33-year-old neurologist at UCLA who's exploring innovative ways to cure coma. Toker ...

It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates ...

(via Veritasium) How a single phone call from a student helped uncover a flaw that nearly toppled Citicorp.

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego found that cigarette smoking continues to decline across the United States, ...

The Andromeda Paradox, originally from Roger Penrose, is a brain-melting thought experiment that brings up the question of ...