New Clues to the Way We Metabolize Sugar A gene that appeared sometime after humans began processing their food seems to protect some people from type 2 diabetes

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change

Broccoli Is Dying. Corn Is Toxic. Long Live Microbiomes

It's Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases

The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction

A Scientist Must Go Where the Evidence Leads

The Law Isn't Ready for Psychedelic Medicine

The Secret Life of Kudzu

Research has found emotionally extreme experiences, not just “positive” or “negative” experiences, are more meaningful in life

1,000 Years of Congruent Numbers

Is Medicine Overrated?

The Internet Is a Cesspool of Racist Pseudoscience

Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - If we don’t know how AIs make decisions, how can we trust what they decide?

Myths about Testosterone

Why Don't We Hear About More Species Going Extinct?

We Need to Get Serious about “Critical Materials”

Decoherence – a problem with quantum computers

Scientific Research Shouldn't Sit behind a Paywall - The public pays taxes to support research; they should be able to access the results

In-group favoritism is difficult to change, even when the social groups are meaningless, suggests a new study on 5- to 8-year-olds, which found "mere membership" is sufficient to bring out strong in-group favoritism, however random and meaningless the group assignment is.

A Curious Sequence of Prime Numbers

The Next Wave of Immuno-Oncology

Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies

When Engineers Become Whistleblowers

We Must Defend Science in the Face of Political Attacks

The Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones

Cosmology Has Some Big Problems

Language Shapes the Brain

We Can't Solve Climate Change Without Nuclear Power: Renewable energy carbon-capture technologies, efficiency measures, reforestation and other steps are important—but they won’t get us there

New research demonstrates that increasing Medicaid eligibility reduces the correlation between parent and child income at the county level

Thomas Kuhn Wasn't So Bad

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