Why can’t we remember our childhoods? The “million-dollar question,” says Power, remains why our brains have evolved to forget our earliest memories.

Why Friendships Matter More Than We Think February 27, 2025 | 21:27 In a world that emphasizes romantic relationships, we explore the science of friendships in humans and our primate relatives— how we ...

No matter what happens to health insurance, there will be no improvement in health care unless there is an increase in supply.

As wildlife biologists continue to study wild turkey population declines, hunters are wondering why it's legal to hunt hens in the fall.

So what really happens when we forget what we were just thinking about? Understanding why we forget first requires an understanding of how our memory works — and dispelling some myths about memory.

Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care A growing number of incels are NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). That should concern us all.

Babies as young as one year old can form memories, according to the results of a brain-scanning study published today in Science. The findings suggest that infantile amnesia — the inability to ...

Scientists Propose Deliberately Infecting Another World With Life To See What Happens A new paper proposes a peculiar experiment on Enceladus (and warns why we probably shouldn't do it).

So why do we cry when we’re happy? Because happiness is not a simple emotion. It is often tangled with memory, relief, awe and the sheer weight of meaning.

How Science and Culture Are Under Attack—and What We Can Do About It We are going to need to work together to defend scientific research, schools, universities, libraries, news organizations, and ...

Earth Day 2025: Why we celebrate the planet that keeps us grounded, how to get involved Earth rocks, and we get to celebrate just how wonderful our planet is on April 22.

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 light-years away. But experts are skeptical.