For almost 60 years, measuring cholesterol levels in the blood has been the best way to identify individuals at high risk of ...

A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with ...

Artificial intelligence-based writing assistants are popping up everywhere – from phones to email apps to social media ...

It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates ...

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego found that cigarette smoking continues to decline across the United States, ...

The Andromeda Paradox, originally from Roger Penrose, is a brain-melting thought experiment that brings up the question of ...

On St Valentine’s Day 1990, NASA’s engineers directed the space-probe Voyager 1 – at the time, 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from home – to take a photograph of Earth. Pale Blue Dot (as the ...

The sublime, almost fearful nature of deep time sometimes awes me even more than the kind of distances we routinely discuss in these pages. Yes, the prospect of a 13.8 billion year old cosmos strung ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I rarely see eye to eye, but I’ll grudgingly admit he’s not entirely wrong about food dyes, though not for the reasons he thinks. His claim that dyes are fueling a national ...

The Ecomodernist Manifesto is a decade-old this year. Ten years go, an interdisciplinary group of scientists and thinkers came together to formulate a new kind of environmentalism for the modern world ...

Solar energy expansion is often viewed as a threat to US food security. And yet roughly 12 million hectares of US farmland—an area the size of New York State—is currently devoted to corn crops that ...