Say what you will about Instagram, but the social media platform has undeniably contributed to the furthering of scientific ...

With the advent of e-cigarettes, millions of smokers gained a way to get their nicotine fix without many of the negative health effects of lighting tobacco on fire. Of course, because the technology ...

One of the great things about wildlife photography is how it allows us to bear witness to the whole cycle of life. There’s perhaps no better example of this than the images celebrated in this year’s ...

One day, our sun will collapse into a superdense object about the size of Earth—a white dwarf. While our sun is an orangish-yellow, the resulting white dwarf will be… white obviously, right? Not ...

Debunking a case that is widely accepted by the scientific community is like seeing a piece of a movie set fall over: You realize in a moment that the saloon in the spaghetti western is not a ...

Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake in what is now White Sands national park, New Mexico. The footprints they ...

Dwarf reedsnakes of the genus Pseudorabdion, found in Southeast Asia, have a rather clever way of fleeing from trouble: They turn cartwheels until they’re safe from danger. See for yourself: Now, ...

When you walk into a room and instantly sense conflict brewing among a huddle of people, or a friend tells you, “I’m fine,” but you have a strong intuition that they are not, you’re reading an ...

Replacing 10% of your intake of ultra-processed foods with minimally processed foods is linked with 2% lower incidence of bowel cancer, according to our new analysis of data from more than 460,000 U.S ...

As far as obesity measures go, body mass index leaves a lot to be desired. It’s ridiculously simplistic, taking into account just two measurements: height and weight. It also doesn’t account for ...