The alternative is finding out how to live on a planet suffering from chronic lung disease.

Say what you will about Instagram, but the social media platform has undeniably contributed to the furthering of scientific ...

It may take a while to become as famous as Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the 12,000-acre Chiricahua ...

People too often forget that IQ tests haven’t been around that long. Indeed, such psychological measures are only about a century old. Early versions appeared in France with the work of Alfred Binet ...

When a new dinosaur species is announced, we all probably share a similar image of how it was discovered: a team of sweaty paleontologists, meticulously removing layers of dirt to uncover a skeleton.

Our country has a long and tortured history with food pyramids. The original dietary schematic, unveiled in 1992, had a firm foundation of carbohydrates—the bread, cereals, rice, and pasta group. It ...

Myriad studies focus on human sleep, from mapping circadian rhythms to determining optimal sleep length. But we’re not the only creatures that need some shut-eye. The same is also true even of ...

For at least 8,500 years, the community inside Texas’ Bracken Cave has swelled exponentially every spring as up to 10 million free-tailed bats fly 700 miles north from various smaller roosts in and ...

Being an entrepreneur is a high-risk, high-reward endeavor, but a new study suggests one of those rewards may be a longer life. A team of economic researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology ...

Artificial intelligence is already being used for facial recognition, but how good is it? In lab conditions, it’s extraordinarily precise, correctly identifying people 99 percent of the time. In the ...

Many years ago, evolutionary psychologist Nick Humphrey met a family in Turkey with eight children who were unable to walk upright. Due to a genetic disease, they could only get around on all fours.

Originally, van Gogh’s work was thought to be just an artistic representation of a night sky. But when researchers surfaced a letter written by the painter mentioning Venus, some acknowledged that at ...