Humans perceive and navigate the world around us with the help of our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is ...

A new study from Indiana University scientists may aid the pharmaceutical industry in better understanding a popular over-the ...

Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an ab ...

The Schrodinger's cat experiment is the source of many arguments in quantum mechanics, mostly because that was the whole ...

Tom Crawford teaches at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. At Oxford he is the Public Engagement Lead at the Department for Continuing Education, and a fe ...

(via Steve Mould) Döbereiner's lamp uses a platinum catalyst to react hydrogen with oxygen.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Something was very wrong with Kyle and Nicole Muldoon’s baby. The doctors speculated. Maybe it was meningitis? Maybe sepsis? They got an answer when KJ was only a week old. He had a rare genetic ...