Science

Pain is something most people experience after an injury, whether from a sprained ankle, surgery or car accident. Normally pain…

Steve Fleming’s research is definitely “meta” — a Greek prefix indicating self-reference. He’s a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London…

Priestesses of a mysterious cult in ancient Greece and Rome may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic…

This month could be the best time to spot the northern lights for nearly a decade, as the combination of…

quick factsWhat it is: HD 61005, a sun-like star nicknamed the “Moth”Where it is: About 117 light-years away in the…

Elevators have a strange way of messing with your sense of gravity. The moment an elevator lurches upward, you feel…

When artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed to behave more like a human communicator, it becomes a more effective debate partner…

Organic molecules discovered within a stone on Mars cannot be fully explained by nonbiological processes, and it’s “reasonable to hypothesize”…

In 1774, British physician-scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician: to spend time in a small…

Humans first developed complex and information-dense writing around 3000 B.C., when the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) invented cuneiform…