All across the Universe, trillions of galaxies can be seen, with each one typically containing billions and billions of stars. Here on Earth,... Read More

At an upcoming summit in early December, NATO is expected to declare space as a “warfighting domain”, partly in response to new... Read More

At a time when women's reproductive freedoms are under attack, any suggestion that the birth control pill could be problematic feels... Read More

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The brain is, at least to me, an enigma wrapped in a mystery. People who are smarter than I am—a list that encompasses most humans,... Read More

In February of this year, a critical review in the Journal of Health Psychology prompted one of its editors to publish open letters calling... Read More

Warning: this story is about death. You might want to click away now.That's because, researchers say, our brains do their best to keep us... Read More

Scientists have written a paper talking about how they "rediscovered" a pesticide that had never really been forgotten but had been ignored... Read More

There are approximately 5.6 million people over the age of 65 living with Alzheimer's disease in the United States. With the population... Read More

In my previous installment of this column, I wrote about a fundamental difference between mathematics and physics: The former is a deductive... Read More

Chad Dechow, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State University who studies dairy cows, is explaining how all of America's cows ended up so... Read More

It's been a bumpy aerospace ride, but we finally made it. The first all-women spacewalk took place in the early hours of Friday... Read More