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A global survey shows the majority of countries favor Android over iPhone.
A textbook pregnancy consists of three trimesters. The baby develops at a relatively predictable rate during this time, from pomegranate seed to avocado to watermelon. And mom’s body adapts accordingly […]
English is a dynamic language, and this summer's new additions to dictionary.com tell us a lot about how we're living.
Leap years will only get us through the next few thousand years before we have to fix it. With every year that passes, we assume that two separate things will both […]
Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.
Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth's coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.
Ignoring a scientific truth doesn’t change it, even when the consequences are deadly. “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?” Many of us, as children, […]
A theoretical physicist returns to Penrose and Hameroff's theory of "quantum consciousness."
One single plot of data embodies the most profound thing we know about the stars.
Eight-eyed arachnids can tell when an object's movement is not quite right.
By slowing down aging, we could reap trillions of dollars in economic benefits.
And why, even at its faintest, it always outshines every other star and planet. If you’ve been looking to the west after sunset recently, you may have noticed that there’s one […]
The same parts of the brain that help us navigate complex social interactions can also drive us to make wildly bad investments.
Smallpox was nothing new in 1721.
Some of these trends may be due, in part, to the lockdown.
Understanding "why" may be the key to unlocking an AI's imagination.
A new study from Iceland confirms that a shorter workweek improves productivity.
If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]
By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.