A little-known scientific experiment, in which researchers reversed the aging process in rodents, was recently repeated by three major medical institutions. The results will make you think very differently about aging.

The question of antimatter is a specter haunting the field of physics: Why is there more matter in the universe than anti-matter? Lawrence Krauss gives a surprising answer.

If you’re a white, middle-class woman who scans the headlines all day, you’re more likely than not to be among the angriest of Americans.

If you ask an American politician, God is crushing hard on America. 

The conceptual tools of science had to be painstakingly built. Turns out seemingly self-evident ideas like discovery and facts once weren't so obvious. In The Invention of Science, David Wootton excavates their history. 

After then-president George W. Bush phoned Jacques Chirac, his French counterpart had to consult a biblical scholar to make sense of the conversation. 

The psychologist who fundamentally changed how teachers talk to children warns her message has been lost in translation.

Jesse Ventura and Donald Trump were astute political observers during the 1980s. But Trump has taken the wrong lessons from history, says the former governor of Minnesota.

Distances will melt away.

And it didn’t even need a transit to do it! “Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, […]

Jobs have doubled in the past five years.

Tesla may have been the spark necessary to ignite the electric car industry.

Just the thought of money causes your brain to react in ways similar to being high on cocaine.

It has been brought to my attention that some of you would like to have a copy of my book, autographed and personalized, and perhaps sent to either you or […]

Indiana Jones would have been a lot less irritable if he had access to machine learning.

New research demonstrates for the first time the domestic canine's ability to discern between positive and negative emotions in humans.

Can colorblindness be eliminated simply by changing our approach to diagnostics? Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats claims it can be.

The two best-explored outer Solar System worlds orbit one another. But no one was prepared for what New Horizons saw. “Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs […]

Four years ago, the world was shaken with the announcement of a planet around Alpha Centauri. But was it real? “You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.” –Samuel Beckett If […]

Watch entertaining reconstructions of classic experiments demonstrating our predisposition toward dishonesty.