Many Americans believe they’re living in a uniquely unhealthy age, beset by chronic diseases our ancestors never faced. In ...

Yellowstone was massive. Roughly a thousand times larger than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the biggest eruption in the ...

Think traits like eye color or tongue-rolling are simple genetics? Think again. From Mendel’s peas to modern DNA science, let ...

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide ...

Scientists from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have uncovered new evidence that water once flowed beneath the surface ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that an insect, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris, can choose ...

The early modern physicist Isaac Newton had presumed an unperceived yet real flow of time. To Newton, time is a dynamic ...

The most confident people tend to be disproportionately wrong.

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

“Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on”: The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some ...

If you want to learn a tree’s age, you can count their rings. When it comes to humans, scientists have yet to find any ...

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy ...