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, ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

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

(via Veritasium) How a single phone call from a student helped uncover a flaw that nearly toppled Citicorp.

The Ecomodernist Manifesto is a decade-old this year. Ten years go, an interdisciplinary group of scientists and thinkers ...

Humans have known that uranium can cause health problems since at least the 1820s. But that hasn't stopped us from making ...

Middle-aged Americans demonstrated some of the highest levels of loneliness in a new study assessing tens of thousands of ...

How Prosperity Evolves was published. In it, prolific science writer Matt Ridley made clear – with copious evidence – that ...

We are deeply disturbed that the White House Office of Management and Budget is contemplating cutting NASA’s science budget by up to 50 percent. Certainly, the space agency needs to modernize an ...

Childhood vaccination rates have been falling in the United States, especially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.