For years, we've been told that sugar is a major culprit behind the global rise in type 2 diabetes. Now, emerging evidence ...

The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and ...

Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a study conducted by scientists from ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean – an area spanning more than 75million sq km – has been the subject of ocean darkening over the past two decades, according to new research. Ocean ...

The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just looks like a small, faint dot—not a fully detailed world. The que ...

AI slop has already become prevalent across the internet (and in the classroom). But according to multiple reports, artificial intelligence is posing an increasingly serious ...

Roughly 10 percent of the U.S. population is afflicted with major depressive disorder at any given time, and up to 20 percent ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives ...

A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, University of Michigan researchers have discovered—upending ...

Manuel Endres, professor of physics at Caltech, specializes in finely controlling single atoms using devices known as optical tweezers. He and his colleagues use the tweezers, made of laser light, to ...

Thanks to Mark Rober, you can now take a selfie in space for free.

Many atheists consider themselves to be highly rational people who rate evidence and analytical thinking above religion, ...