How do cells know what they should become as the body develops? Biological development depends crucially on spatial patterns: ...

Statistical testing in Python offers a way to make sure your data is meaningful. It only takes a second to validate your data ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

In a world where facts seem increasingly negotiable and science is treated like just another opinion at the dinner table, ...

Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel prizes.

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the ...

The 2025 ceremony, held at Boston University, showcased a range of peculiar studies — from whether Teflon can curb hunger to ...

Dark matter has bewildered scientists for centuries. It makes up most of the universe’s matter, but it can’t be seen directly ...

You’ve probably heard before about research that links being in nature with having a better mood. But this is the first one to actually nail down physiological differences in people after they ...

Drinking more than you intended may be something that many humans do, but now research is showing that a taste for alcohol is ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

New research supports the drunken monkey hypothesis, which links the human attraction to alcoholic beverages to the habits of ...