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The majority of countries are democracies. But how many people enjoy democratic rights?

Quantum superposition challenges our notions of what is real.

“Groupthink” gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.

With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.

We don’t know with 100% certainty where SARS-CoV-2 first came from or how it first infected humans. But not all options are equally likely.

Medical psychologist Catherine Monk explains how prenatal mental care benefits both mothers and babies.

The costs of such an endeavor would be extremely high, while the potential payoffs would be uncertain.

You can’t throw a DART at everything in space.

AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.

“All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

It is a story with nebulous beginnings and no discernible end.

Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.

A ten-minute visit from a therapy dog reduces emergency room patients’ pain and anxiety.

Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.

One reason saving is hard: We tend to view our “future selves” as complete strangers, and our decisions in the present moment reflect that.

While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.

The plant-like sea creatures contain a molecule that improves memory, learning, and even hair quality, according to a new study in mice.

From 260-year-old ciphers to the most recent Zodiac Killer solution, these unbreakable codes just needed time.

69 percent of the global diet is “foreign,” says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops.

As the stream of AI-generated art turns into a deluge, NFTs could become a cornerstone of the Virtual Renaissance.

A floating platform the size of Rome collapsed off of Antarctica.

Looking with lasers, researchers discovered that many Olmec and Mayan ruins seem to have been constructed from the same blueprint.

Some analysts predict that Amazon’s revenue will double over the next five years.

The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.

The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.

For a substantial fraction of a second after the Big Bang, there was only a quark-gluon plasma. Here’s how protons and neutrons arose.

Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.

Here’s how it works.

Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.

The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe.