More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Optical illusions are fascinating visual tricks that deceive our brains, making us see things that aren’t actually there or perceive images differently than they truly are. These illusions play with ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...

When Ranan Lachman reached out to tell me about his new book on future-proofing your world as AI accelerates change all around us, I was excited and agreed to do a book review. However, I had no true ...

A journal commentary argues that headline-grabbing claims about trauma neurobiology and treatment have eclipsed more modest, well-supported findings. Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score has ...

Pound-for-pound, the human brain is the body’s most metabolically costly organ, consuming 20% of our energy and accounting for an outsize portion of our anatomy compared with most other animals.

Beyond the flashing cameras Hollywood shines with friendships that run deeper than the spotlight, showcasing celebrity besties whose bonds prove unshakable as they share laughs, support, and ...

Parkinson's disease is characterized by the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SN), which project to the striatum (ST) via the nigrostriatal pathway. The loss of ...

For at least six decades, neuroscientists have been arguing over a big, foundational question: Do adult brains make new neurons? This process of “neurogenesis” had been shown in other adult animals, ...