Living on Mars, humans would experience just 38% the gravity of Earth and would be exposed to much more radiation. These two ...

The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, minerals altered by water, and other geological traces indicate that the R ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light you shine at it: Optical light illuminates a material’s surface, while X-rays reveal its internal structures and infrared captures ...

Our last video about Mexican Coke made a bold claim: that Mexican Coke has no (unhydrolyzed) sugar in it. Two chemistry professors called us on that claim, so George visited them to ru ...

We know that Einstein’s general relativity is, strictly speaking, wrong. That’s because it doesn’t account for quantum effects despite the fact that those e ...

Doctors have found that metformin, an everyday medicine for diabetes, is associated with less progression of age-related ...

The social scientist Arthur Brooks dedicates his time to studying happiness. And upon reading Jung’s interview he was struck ...

Prior to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, Americans lived in communities awash with lead ...

Physical aggression by young people toward their parents occurs quite frequently – yet the subject remains taboo. Victims ...

Improvements in public health have allowed humankind to survive to older ages than ever before, but, for many people, these ...

An international team has described Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny Early Cretaceous ornithopod from Vegagete (Burgos, Spain), measuring barely half a meter long. Led by Paul-Emile Dieudonné (Nation ...

Exploring Earth’s deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have travelled 25 billion km into space, the deepest we have ever gone below our feet is just ...