(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 ...

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

The sublime, almost fearful nature of deep time sometimes awes me even more than the kind of distances we routinely discuss in these pages. Yes, the prospect of a 13.8 billion year old cosmos strung ...

Kudos to Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson for pointing out that states and cities ruled by Democrats continue to demonstrate their failure to get anything built—even as they continue to insist that they ...

Ford Motor believes that it can offer lower-priced EVs that can travel farther on a single charge by the end of the decade. Read Full Article » ...

It just didn’t make sense. I was working in a genetics laboratory, and we were trying to find the mutated gene that caused a particular disease that was common in a few families my supervisor had seen ...

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

Researchers at University of California San Diego and Wake Forest University have found that both low and moderate-high ...

Molecular Sciences, researchers at the University of Mississippi center found that cinnamaldehyde – a primary component of ...

If you or someone you love finds it difficult to stand up from the toilet without using your hands, it might seem like a small issue. But in health and ageing, this movement – known as the ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds ...