The problems with social media platforms in terms of the 'human' and 'data' aspect. Deleting Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram can make you a happier person

Singing experiments with residents of the Bolivian rainforest demonstrate how biology and experience shape the way we hear music.

Dear Bella,I’m going to imitate Rudyard Kipling and tell you a just-so story. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the…

New research on asymptomatic people reveals underlying effects

New records for extreme lightning bursts, or ‘megaflashes’, during 2019, have been made official, more than doubling the size and duration of the previous record flashes, the UN’s weather agency,

Nitric oxide is a very simple but important molecule. It will determine how long you live. And it's an intregal part of sex and heart health.

How do we really know there weren’t previous civilizations on our planet that rose and fell long before humans appeared? That’s the question posed in a thought experiment by University of Rochester’s Professor Adam Frank and Dr. Gavin Schmidt of NASA’s Goddard…

While we might switch to a plant-based diet with the best intentions, the unseen risks of vegan fast foods might not show up for years

America needs a reckoning over racism. Punishing people who did not do anything wrong harms that important cause.

Radio signals from deep space: Astronomers including researchers at MIT have detected the first periodic fast radio burst from 500 million light years away.