Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out ...

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical ...

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the ...

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and ...

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at everything from choosing the best job ...

Brooke Scelza is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’s department of anthropology. She is co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project, where she studies ...

A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, and scientists have ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

Growing awareness of how addiction and trauma are intertwined has birthed a new generation of treatment strategies.

On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Central Europe and North Carolina have both been drenched by torrential rains ...

Even for serious bird-watchers, Black-capped Chickadees and Carolina Chickadees are tough to tell apart. Both are members of ...