Science communicator Hank Green explains how our species’ unique intelligence got us into this climate mess—and how it will help us solve it ...

Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread ...

Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, and the true sun’s daily path across the sky is higher. The opposite is ...

For a new preprint study, posted online but not yet peer-reviewed, scientists at Google, Google DeepMind and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) created a text-based game.* ...

Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with ...

His work has appeared in New Scientist, the Economist, Scientific American and Nature, among others. He covers the life sciences and specializes in neuroscience, psychology and mental health.

Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura Helmuth, who resigned in November. Instead, it appears that little has … ...

That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook’s parent company Meta announced plans to scrap the platform’s fact-checking programme ...