In the periodic table, no element is more important than another one. But in the Standard Model—a theory that explains…
Like all pandemics, it started out small. A novel coronavirus emerged in Brazil, jumping from bats to pigs to farmers…
Linguistic anthropologists have observed that people all over the world perceive languages, and speakers of those different languages, as fundamentally…
A drug that treats poisoning from heavy metals may also offer a fighting chance at surviving a venomous snakebite. In…
Some ocean animals have a clever form of camouflage—they’re transparent. But being see-through is far less common on land. “And…
The United States has recently taken some important steps to rectify past injustices to Native Americans. These include the Supreme…
The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed at least 78 people and…
SpaceX just flew a full-size prototype of its Starship Mars-colonizing spacecraft for the first time ever. The Starship SN5 test vehicle took to the…
Memory loss and forgetfulness are common warning signs for dementia. But a dulling of the senses also appears to be…
In April of 2018, we described in this magazine our effort to enlist colleagues in the U.S. National Academy of…