Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Every year, the Ig Nobel Prize is awarded to ten lucky winners. To qualify, you need to publish research in a peer-reviewed ...

As people turn to AI for therapy and companionship, some say the models still need to learn the nuances of human humor.

A new study in eLife reveals a surprising twist in infant attention research. By 12 months old, infants do not simply respond ...

One night in 373 BCE, the earth beneath the Greek city of Helike groaned and cracked. As homes crumbled and temples collapsed ...

Normally, the immune system kicks off an inflammatory response to clean up damaged tissue and fight off infection. After that ...

In a lab in Japan, scientists sent more than 125,000 gigabytes of data per second across a distance greater than from New ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

“The threat we’re talking about is unprecedented,” said Professor Vaughn Cooper, a microbiologist at the University of ...

Participants consistently picked the wrong knot, believing the weakest knots were the strongest. And for many among the few ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

In a new study published this month in npj Aging, researchers report that psilocybin slowed down key aspects of the aging ...