I ntermittent fasting – periods of eating little or nothing interspersed with normal food consumption – isn't an effective way to lose weight, according to a review of 22 randomized controlled trials.

Science fiction makes it seem like dinosaurs were huge reptiles. But between smaller sizes, feathers, and other factors, they ...

Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, reconstructed from fossil data, shows that the young not-yet-giants almost ...

Narrated by their Creator and ours, Morgan Freeman. By Tony Maglio Stegosaurus won’t just play defense with those spine plates — he’ll mess your whole world up with a swing of his tail, allosaurus.

The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desk has had a busy 2025: Our writers have spent the year probing the limits of human consciousness and gene-editing technology, studying the ubiquity of ...

This research was conducted in part thanks to the generous support of the UCLA Anderson Morrison Center for Marketing and Data Analytics. In public discourse, we spend a great deal of collective ...

Santa inspired by St. Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop known for kindness and secret gift-giving. Santa's red suit popularized by Coca-Cola, earlier depictions showed him in bishop's attire. Santa's ...

The stegosaurus, over 29 feet long and described as “housebroken,” is selling for $1,260. The adult triceratops, $2,230. A life-size T. rex, 39 feet long, 18 feet tall, “slightly used” and “well loved ...

The season is known as both “fall” and “autumn.” The word “autumn” comes from Latin, while “fall” originated in 17th-century Britain as a shortening of the phrase “fall of the leaf.” While both are ...