Science

Brain development is a highly complex process that is strongly influenced by the environment in which a child is raised, with the earliest years of life being especially important for the emergence of…

The cosmic story that unfolded following the Big Bang is ubiquitous no matter where you are. The formation of atomic nuclei, atoms, stars, galaxies, planets, complex molecules, and eventually life is…

Caltech scientists explain the strange phenomenon of quantum entanglement in everyday language.

Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest mysteries, but as the neuroscientist Anil Seth explains to Steven Strogatz, research is making progress in…

Every memory leaves its own imprint in the brain, and researchers are starting to work out what one looks like.

It's also important to poke the heart of a dead pigeon

Most of us tend to think of randomness as being “well spaced." Genuinely random distributions seem to contradict our inherent ideas of what randomness should look like.

If you think Mr. Monopoly wears a monocle or believe you’ve read “The Berenstein Bears” books, you might be experiencing the so-called Mandela Effect, or collective false memory.

Science is full of drama. One century we’re basing the treatment of ailments on the four humors, then over two thousand years later, we find out it’s actually microbes messing with our bodies. For Dr…

A lot of things went right this year. Almost none of them made the news.

Is there an afterlife or is this the only life we get? Most think science says there is no afterlife. But this view, while common, is wrong.

When a theory breaks, you learn how to build it better.

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The enigmatic saga of one of astrophysics' most wanted particles.

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, managing director of Thiel Capital and a podcaster.The last 3 years has been a time of massive confusion. No on...

How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers.

A century ago, the Stern-Gerlach experiment established the truth of quantum mechanics. Now it’s being used to probe the clash of quantum theory and gravity.

In a digital world that clamors for clicks, news is sensationalized, and “facts” change all the time, here’s how to discern what is trustworthy and what is hogwash.

Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon.