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If you understand when and how to ask questions, you possess an effective inoculation against charlatans.

Nov 28, 2025 - New research suggests that the timing of your puberty may affect your long-term health, including heart disease, diabetes and asthma

Philosophy is often seen as little more than armchair speculation. This is a shame, as philosophy often has helped science reach new heights.

What - if anything - makes metaphysics still relevant? And what's the relationship between science and metaphysics?    

There’s a lot of data still under the radar.

The symbol for love is the heart, but the brain may be more accurate.

Oct 21, 2025 - Philosophy asks if free will is real. Neuroscience reveals why the answer is more complicated than we expected.

Nov 11, 2025 - “Consciousness is fundamental. It's a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.”

A new book by William Egginton envisions an encounter of minds between Jorge Luis Borges, Werner Heisenberg, and Immanuel Kant.

An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight against poverty with tools and programs that are more effective than ever before.

Jan 15, 2026

Candy corn sparks strong feelings for a reason. Science explains how one bite can trigger both nostalgia and disgust.

Dec 17, 2025 - Rather than seeing religion and science as separate spheres, Francis Collins and Marc Siegel believe they are intertwined.

“We know that as little as 10 minutes of walking can improve your mood, that is getting that bubble bath with the dopamine, serotonin, endorphins going,...

If someone is into feet, they're more likely to be into certain other things too. But we have no idea why.

Feb 15, 2026 - A review of over 500 reports of cannibalistic behavior in snakes finds it's appeared multiple times in different evolutionary lineages, leading researchers to...

New research verifies that each addresses a separate cognitive domain.

Even without brains, creatures like jellyfish and sea anemones can learn from experience.

Jul 3, 2025

Nov 21, 2025 - Traditional manufacturers are using revolutionary technology for incremental optimization instead of fundamental re-imagination

Does science tell the truth?

From treating specific diseases to targeting aging itself, Progress Conference 2025 explored the many routes to extending life.

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Finding it difficult to encourage your students to think critically about science? You’re not alone. Dr. Mia Kang, a science teacher from Los Angeles Unified...

From Abraham Lincoln's founding of the National Academy of Sciences in 1863, to the US currently leading the world in the Nobel Prize count (a third of...

Jan 15, 2026 - A new report finds that a majority of Americans think the U.S. should be a world leader in science, but Democrats increasingly believe other countries are...

Nov 26, 2024 - Data Pipelines are series of tasks organised in a directed acyclic graph or "DAG". Historically, these are run on open-source workflow orchestration...

Could a pill make you more moral? Should you take it if it could?

Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.

The deep study of friction and surfaces — so crucial to industrial manufacture — emerged from a mid-century engineering conference.

Nov 20, 2025 - They're faster, more efficient, cheaper, and better for you and your family.

Spotting an AI-generated face is harder than you might think. How confident are you in your ability?

De-extinction didn’t start with Silicon Valley — people began envisioning it as soon as they learned extinction was possible.

All science begins with a leap of intuition, says Richard Dawkins, but we can only ever find objective truths by knowing when to let evidence take over from...