Our evolved craving for cause and effect once ensured survival but now fuels misunderstanding. Learning to favor correlation ...

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.

In one day, 433 people won the Philippine lottery jackpot. What were the chances? On October 1, 2022, something strange ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

Psychologists tested whether various cues to physical attractiveness are redundant or signal unique information about a ...

In his book "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin explores explanations for how consciousness evolved, and ultimately, what makes us human. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Is reality an illusion a digital projection built on data and design? Simulation theory suggests that everything we know, from the laws of physics to our own thoughts, may be nothing more than code ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

It’s probe-ably nothing. The newly discovered Manhattan-sized interstellar object zooming through our solar system has been identified as a comet — but two Harvard scientists argue there is reason to ...

A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar to claims made about 'Oumuamua. But experts have called it "nonsense". When ...