Researchers at UCLA have found Grim Reaper DNA in 5% of the population. But there is a bright side – lifestyle choices go a long way in overriding a shorter genetic life expectancy. 

Humans are not the most murderous creature on this planet. A recent study has laid out the rates of death and found meerkats to be the most lethal.

We never forget a face, but that's because humans are evolutionary predisposed.

As great as Hubble is, it can only see a narrow range of light, which means it can only see a sliver of the Universe. Want more? “We conducted the first […]

What would happen if gene editing fell into the wrong hands?   

A new study shows that cerebral blood flow within the left and right hippocampus significantly decreases after just 10 days of without exercise.

An under-5-minute explanation of how you make a particle accelerators.

Study reveals that most of us want more rest and would rather rest alone.

A Jewish state in Alaska?

In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre showed how warp drive could be made real within General Relativity. What does that imply? “Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new […]

The idea of time travel, so familiar to us now, was unheard-of before H.G. Wells's 1895 book The Time Machine. Since then, notions of time travel have blossomed in fascinating ways.

Spontaneous, deep talk on surprise topics. On this week's episode of Think Again – a Big Think podcast, celebrity chef Alton Brown and host Jason Gots talk about fire, their mutual childhood lust for the Betty Crocker Easy-Bake Oven and how everything worth doing might get you killed. 

Our love affair with profanity may be cultural or it may be neurological.

Memes have the potential to make people laugh, but when they're used for evil?

Forget multi-vitamins, pick up a happy spouse instead. This study suggests the enormous upward effect of having a partner who has a happy nature.

A baby is born from a controversial procedure that combines DNA from 3 people.

There are strict scientific standards a new ‘claimed discovery’ needs to meet. Has cold fusion gotten there? “Between cold fusion and respectable science there is virtually no communication at all. …because the […]

Neuroscience suggests that we have limited free will, but there is a model of freedom that even neuroscientists support; "free won't".

A recent report covered in Runner's World says the sweet spot might just be forty miles a week.

"Plan your family on the go," a new campaign says. The London Sperm Bank thinks women might appreciate selecting a sperm donor the way they find a date on the hook-up app Tinder.