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By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.

Only Caesar lived to tell the tale.

Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?

From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.

Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them “easy to get to, but not worth arriving at.”

Can you guess who it is?

Wealth was a cushion, but even being well-off did not protect people from the harmful effects of pandemic stressors.

Discover how the threads of myth, legend, and artistry have been woven together by storytellers to craft history.

High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.

With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.

The classic picture of Jupiter’s great rocky core might be entirely wrong.

There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.

Environmental activists want us to feel “flight shame” if we can take a train, instead. But this isn’t entirely realistic, even in Europe.

The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.

For people with hard-to-treat depression, a non-invasive technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can provide relief.

The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.

“We didn’t build anything face-ish into our network [but] managed to segregate themselves without being given a face-specific nudge.”

The cost of seeing yourself as a thief is pretty steep, the results of a 2019 study suggest.

Air currents in our atmosphere limit the resolving power of giant telescopes, but computers and artificial stars can sharpen the blur.

In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don’t live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here’s how.

The Apple Watch could soon take the pain out of monitoring blood sugar levels.

Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.

Dark matter hasn’t been directly detected, but some form of invisible matter is clearly gravitating. Could the graviton hold the answer?

The last time the population shrank was during the great famine of 1959-61.

There are issues with Kinsey’s data, but his books revolutionized Americans’ thinking about sex and sexuality.

The answer largely centers on crops and cows.

The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.

“Conceptual isolation” offers an agreeable solution.

You become the main protagonist in these novels.

Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.