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Our love affair with profanity may be cultural or it may be neurological.
A baby is born from a controversial procedure that combines DNA from 3 people.
Neuroscience suggests that we have limited free will, but there is a model of freedom that even neuroscientists support; “free won’t”.
A recent report covered in Runner’s World says the sweet spot might just be forty miles a week.
So how would you like your prescription? A dragon? Tiger? Something tribal maybe?
More Americans now use opioids than tobacco, while pro-painkiller lobbies outspend opposition 200 to 1.
According to Elon Musk, it’ll only take between 40 and 100 years to achieve a fully self-sustaining civilization on Mars. Here’s how.
Japanese car maker introduces self-driving chairs to eliminate lines.
A senior scientist from the SETI project imagines how we’ll react to inarguable evidence of an alien civilization.
Stanford scientists create technology that could help severely paralyzed people communicate.
The chicken you eat comes from birds that only live for 5 years and are susceptible to disease and inbreeding. Thank goodness Koen Vanmechelen bred a better one.
If we could stop viral epidemics before they happened, tremendous sums of money and lives would be saved. But how do we do it? A new organization called the CEPI was founded this August with a robust answer.
Three new studies suggest early modern humans migrated from Africa in one massive migration between 75,000 and 50,000 years ago.
When science funding goes down we have to make tough choices in deciding what gets funded, that should be easy, right? Too bad great ideas often come as a total surprise.
Super-recognizers are people with an extraordinary gift for remembering faces, and researchers are trying to find them.
Theoretical physicists may have arrived at an understanding that makes the pursuit of principles and laws through science meaningless.
Scientists conceptualize a potential avenue of creating an embryo with only male cells.
According to a study recently published in the journal Emotion, being in awe of nature may make individuals less likely to accept scientific explanations for the existence of our universe.
A new study finds an innate correlation between words and the sounds they’re built from.
A major report has come out identifying in no uncertain terms that sugar is bad and soda companies are lying to us. The sky, as it turns out, is also blue.
A gallery of high-quality images sent to earth by Curiosity Rover from Mars.
The variety options for sweeteners can be overwhelming. A nutritionist at Johns Hopkins offers insights into how to simplify the sweet life.
The reasons why the pain of a paper cut is so disproportionately high compared to its seriousness.
Believe it or not, life for the vast majority of Americans has improved under President Obama. From health and wellbeing to economic stability and quality of life, Americans are living […]
Researchers discover the ways in which spiders tune and play their webs as a way to control their worlds.
Scientists think they may understand why our brains produce false memories.
Hospitals are starting to get serious about just how noisy they can be for patients trying to heal.
The increased use of smart drugs to boost brain performance is raising many ethical and practical questions.
Can the art of communal bathing teach us to be more social animals?