(via SciShow) Are you old enough for your childhood to be filled with the threat of acid rain? Are you now thinking "Wait, why haven't I heard about the threat of acid rain in forever?". Well it's ...

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 ...

Lightning is a phenomenon that has fascinated humanity since time immemorial, providing a stark example of the power and ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...