According to a team of botanists from Tel Aviv University who uncovered this odd phenomenon, the secret is in the way the ...

Daylight Saving Time is now over, which means you probably enjoyed an extra hour of sleep over the weekend. Unfortunately, even a welcome disruption of your sleep cycle may be bad for your heart, at ...

Halloween seems like an appropriate time to let you know that zombies are real. Or at least zombie bacteria are, according to a timely new study published in Angewandte Chemie. A team of biologists ...

Imagine you’re making a pie. You follow the recipe to the letter, purchasing the recommended brands listed, using a thermometer to ensure your oven is calibrated, etc. But when you go to pull it out ...

Igor Pikovski recently decided to tackle one of the holy grails of physics: discovering the quantum soul of gravity. “It's the biggest mystery of physics,” says the Stevens Institute of Technology ...

Former Cornell student Jane Doe, who filed a civil lawsuit in September 2026 alleging that seven fraternity members raped her at a party, said the young men who assaulted her pressured her into taking ...

The alternative is finding out how to live on a planet suffering from chronic lung disease.

There’s a testosterone crisis in America—at least according to a number of Trump administration officials. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for example, has bemoaned the ...

If you’ve got an escape trick that works, stick with it: A lizard tail trapped in amber reveals that these reptiles were using the same evasion tactic—lose the tail, regrow it later—almost 100 million ...

A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope recently spotted something curious. Observing a white dwarf (J1328−1450) located roughly 1,600 light-years from ...

Vultures might not be the most charismatic birds, but they do perform an important job. As carrion-feeding scavengers, they dispose of decaying animal matter, even bones, right down their throats. As ...

For more than a decade a group of Harvard professors has taught a class about wisdom and its religious, moral, and aesthetic dimensions to undergraduates. The four professors are friends from distinct ...