Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

We spend a large portion of our lives sleeping. That might seem like an evolutionary disadvantage, given sleep leaves us immobile and potentially vulnerable to attacks for hours on end — but ...

On March 28, the city of Mandalay, Myanmar, became the epicenter of a powerful earthquake that could be felt as far away as ...

In a world of constant stimulation, the thalamus filters which thoughts we become aware of and which we don’t.

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying planes over the frozen southern continent, using radar, sound waves, and ...

Science asks the “how” of things and religion the “why.” We can know the how of everything and nothing of the why.

With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat ...