Science says love is not the dramatic, effortless feeling movies promise. Research shows love is built through trust, empathy ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Whenever you’re actively performing a task—say, lifting weights at the gym or taking a hard exam—the parts of your brain required to ...

If you do research and don’t publish it, is it science? That’s the question at the heart of an ongoing debate on X between entrepreneur Elon Musk and pioneering computer scientist Yann LeCun. Over the ...

From channelling your anger to writing lists and singing more often – here are some science-backed tips to boost your ...

An executive order critiques the idea that race is a human invention. But that's exactly what modern science supports. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

People whose lives aren’t narrated by a voice in their head may have ‘anendophasia’. Experts are now investigating what’s ...

Nestled in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the slash-and-burn playbook for the federal government that the Trump administration is following while saying it isn’t, is a call for American ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Just a heads-up, today’s episode is about human sexuality. We talk about sex, sometimes using slang terms but without any ...

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