Conspiracy thinking, supernatural beliefs and pseudoscience can seem impervious to evidence. An anthropologist suggests…
To reduce emissions put into the atmosphere, Google is using carbon capture and sequestration. But not all CCS projects…
Bacteria living in your mouth get to work as soon as you take your first bite or sip of something sweet. Consuming your…
Although some high-speed rail has been built in the northeastern US, the rest of the country has almost none.
Many different types of stress can trigger a headache. Luckily, there are treatments that can help stop your head from pounding.
The mysteries of Easter Island, subjects of speculation for centuries, yield to scientific inquiry.
Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re…
Naloxone can reverse an overdose in minutes, but exactly how it does this at the molecular level has previously been unclear.
ChatGPT has dramatically altered how people retrieve information, muscling aside Google search as the first stop on the…
Urban digital twins pull together tremendous amounts of data to realistically model cities, but they’ve been missing a…
Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists…
Some unique ‘stars’ might be fueled by dark matter annihilation.
Today’s wolves and dogs share a common ancestor. But a deeper look at their genes reveals that interbreeding since dogs…
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text…
Two ethnobiologists at Penn State surveyed over 800 mushroom harvesters in the mid-Atlantic region to understand what they’re…
A subset of AI called reinforcement learning is helping scientists improve nuclear fuel technology, which they could use…
Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can…
People are increasingly using AI chatbots for emotional and psychological support. Now, companies are using it to support…
Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA telescope…
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material…