Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

While his COVID output and enabling of MAHA doctors should be remembered, it’s not clear why anyone should pay attention to ...

Researchers gave top AI models a classic attention test used in psychology and found a major flaw. While the models could correctly name colors in short lists, their performance deteriorated sharply ...

The faculty, administrators, and trustees who establish graduation criteria at America’s most prominent colleges and universities have made a clear set of judgments about what every educated citizen ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Festinger and several of his colleagues had infiltrated the Seekers, a small ...

Andrew Ancheta is a finance editor who has reported extensively on cryptocurrency, NFTs, economics, and history. He previously worked as an editor for China Daily. Eric's career includes extensive ...

The 15th edition of The Best Australian Science Writing, edited by Zoe Kean and Tegan Taylor, contains 39 essays and stories that “tell tales of the universe that scientists have worked hard to reveal ...

It’s a bizarre scourge afflicting editors and writers, casual readers, and pretty much anyone pondering a word for any length of time. Consider the word flower. F-l-o-w-e-r. Flowers. The flower in the ...

Debra Houry is an emergency physician and was the chief medical officer and deputy director for program and science at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until last week. Last week, I and ...

Yearly Covid-19 Booster Recommendations in Canada, Europe, and Australia. Although the rapid development of multiple Covid-19 vaccines in 2020 represents a major scientific, medical, and regulatory ...

So much social science research has focused on conformity, the way that individuals adjust their behavior to match those around them, and this tendency holds important implications for our world today ...

Many people all around the world have pets, and it has been shown in many studies that having a pet can have a positive effect on various aspects of health. Almost everyone will agree with the idea ...