You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical ...

The missing number is 1,620. The digits in the tens places (green in the figure below) of the numbers in columns 1, 2, 4 and 5 are added together. The total value is represented by the digits in the ...

Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out ...

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at everything from choosing the best job ...

A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, and scientists have ...

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the ...

Growing awareness of how addiction and trauma are intertwined has birthed a new generation of treatment strategies.

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and ...

“One thing that this article is showing is that we are very seasonal creatures,” says Georgetown University School of ...

Because empathy can allow people to connect across political, racial and economic divides, it lays a foundation for acts of ...