If there's a man in the Moon, as the old beliefs go, he's a pretty venerable one. Earth's lunar companion is thought to have formed not long after the planet itself, some...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of consciousness, a...
The Universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we've only identified 1 percent of them.Scientists believe undiscovered chemical compounds could help remove greenhouse gases, or...
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The Roman Empire fell more than 1,500 years ago, but its grip on the popular imagination is still strong,...
Everyone likes a cool infographic, right? Does that statement hold even if the infographic points out a gap in our knowledge that could kill millions of people? Because that's what a cool-looking...
Surgeons at Al-Shifa Hospital are operating without painkillers, according to Christos Christou, the international president of MSF. MSF team members say that they have “heard wounded patients screaming in pain.”Al-Shifa is currently...
The role of the gut microbiome in causing Alzheimer's disease has finally been confirmed.Using gut microbiota transplants, an international team of researchers has shown memory impairments in humans with Alzheimer's can be...
By laying eggs in the rivers, the chum salmon might actually help native fishes by providing food for them. These frigid Arctic waters aren’t particularly productive, biologically speaking, meaning there isn’t normally...
