Recently, finance and insurance experts have begun warning that climate change might spell the end of capitalism as we know it. Blind alarmism or reasonable fear? Let’s ...

The awe-inspiring visuals of the Aurora Borealis have fascinated humanity for centuries, but its most enduring mystery lies not in what we see but what some have claimed to hear for ge ...

Artificial intelligence-based writing assistants are popping up everywhere – from phones to email apps to social media ...

University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent ...

I recently interviewed Daniel Toker, a 33-year-old neurologist at UCLA who's exploring innovative ways to cure coma. Toker ...

It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates ...

The Ecomodernist Manifesto is a decade-old this year. Ten years go, an interdisciplinary group of scientists and thinkers ...

(via Veritasium) How a single phone call from a student helped uncover a flaw that nearly toppled Citicorp.

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego found that cigarette smoking continues to decline across the United States, ...

The Andromeda Paradox, originally from Roger Penrose, is a brain-melting thought experiment that brings up the question of ...

How Prosperity Evolves was published. In it, prolific science writer Matt Ridley made clear – with copious evidence – that ...