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Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.

They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.

Explore how belief shapes destiny, from Oedipus Rex to modern geopolitics.

Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any writer, let alone one as quintessentially English as “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien.

Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.

More than a third of Americans don’t get enough sleep. Diet is an important, under-recognized culprit.

People living in non-industrialized societies don’t get pimples.

A photographer captured Bern’s eclectic and charming feline structures.

Really smart people don’t just demand intellectual engagement — they need the opportunity to learn and create something special.

We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.

There were many similarities, but also some profound differences.

We all spend way too much time worrying what other people think of us — it’s time to cut loose.

Red dwarf stars were supposed to be inhospitable. But TOI-700, now with at least two potentially habitable worlds, is quite the exception.

Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?

From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.

Personal finance advice is often over-simplified and fails to consider economic research or people’s unique circumstances.

Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What’s puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.

Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.

The Shirky Principle states that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.

Close to 70% of drugs advertised on TV offer little to no benefit over other cheaper drugs.

For every proton, there were over a billion others that annihilated away with an antimatter counterpart. So where did all that energy go?

Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.

The apes taught sign language didn’t understand what they were doing. They were merely “aping” their caretakers.

Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.

Since the 1980s, engineered monoclonal antibodies have been knocking out invading germs. Sperm may be next.

There’s no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless in the wake of loss.

In ancient Rome, collective bathing was the norm. In the West today, it’s the exception — and that’s too bad.

A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.