As rates of depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed — or whether ...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they’re often dismissed as an uninteresting ...

Many atheists consider themselves to be highly rational people who rate evidence and analytical thinking above religion, ...

We’ve all felt the sting of guilt when fruit and vegetables go bad before we could eat them. Now, researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have sho ...

Cats have a long history with humans, going back more than 9,000 years. Attracted to human settlements by the rodents that plagued (sometimes literally) our ancestors, cats ...

Across the globe, water scarcity is no longer a distant concern—it’s a present and growing crisis. Today, more than 2.3 ...

Sudden cardiac death is responsible for an unusually high proportion of deaths in male bodybuilders worldwide with the ...

A new study shows that our ability to recall details about familiar objects, like a banana’s typical color, depends on strong ...

By combining information from many large datasets, MIT researchers have identified several new potential targets for treating ...

Sets of metabolites found in blood and urine reliably correspond with how much energy from ultra-processed food a person ...

The Three Mile Island nuclear generating station experienced disaster in 1979, then shutdown in 2019. Today, the plant is scheduled for an unprecedented restart in 2028. Thanks to Micr ...

Clambering through the bush on one of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, suddenly you spy a Komodo dragon in the clearing ahead. Forked tongue flickering; sharp, saw-like teeth glimme ...