There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, supercomputers, and electron microscopes, we still have no clue how it was made ...

The latest research fraud scandal concerns one Eliezer Masliah. He’s one of the world’s leading researchers into Alzheimer’s and it looks as if he fabricated a good deal of his data. A large part of ...

Alchemy wasn’t just about turning lead into gold—it was a blend of philosophy, mysticism, and early chemistry that laid the ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

An old adage tells us that pressure can burst a pipe, but pressure can also make a diamond. It’s a soothing creed for life’s tumult. It applied most directly to me during my past life as a ...

Yet a detailed analysis of the remains of a Neanderthal baby shows that from a very young age, they were already different, ...

Peter Thiel during an interview with Bari Weiss last week spoke about how modern science is failing to balance skepticism and dogmatism. Today’s science has become more dogmatic “than the Catholic ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

In a world increasingly shifting toward preventive and holistic healthcare, AltAhar, a wellness innovation brand under DWA ...