In February 2025 I got to visit Terrapower, a self-proclaimed nuclear innovation company. In part one of this sponsored series, you saw the science behind turning nuclear waste into ca ...

There are a lot of great debates in science, and a major one is when exactly humans reached the Americas. There's contentious footprints and wishy-washy stone tools, all of which has spu ...

What really happens to your mind in a crisis? We all think we know how we'd react in an emergency—but according to journalist and author Amanda Ripley, we're usually wrong.

These days, stories of extreme weather are everywhere you look. But a crucial detail often goes overlooked: We’re actually safer from the consequences of that weather than e ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a blood test that can identify early signs of Alzheimer’s ...

Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they’d probably describe a system that’s ...

A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

A large-scale genomic study of over 1,500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and ...

The double-slit experiment is a famous quantum physics experiment that shows that light exhibits behavior of both a particle ...

In February 2025, a number of running world records were absolutely demolished by athletes who claimed they gained an edge ...

Human beings are a panicky species – quick to fear and slow to understand. Over much of our evolutionary history, this ...

More than 60 million people are estimated to be living with dementia, resulting in over 1.5 million deaths a year and an annual cost to the global healthcare economy of around US $1.3 trillion (almos ...