In a new letter, Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D., co-founder of Moderna and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, warns that these actions risk undermining the foundations of science itself to the ultimate detriment of ...

Weizmann Institute researchers say that progesterone and the stress hormone cortisol drive circadian rhythms; when out of ...

X-ray tomography is a powerful tool that enables scientists and engineers to peer inside of objects in 3D, including computer ...

Using machine learning to guide microscopes could reveal greater insights into the brain's connectome and deepen our ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In general, objects get smaller and fainter with distance (although bizarre ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Diagnoses of depression, one of the most common mental disorders, increased by nearly 50% between 1990 and 2017, according to ...

Mongolian shamans beat wicker drums to summon ancestral spirits. A Peruvian man in a headdress unleashes a piercing ululation ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

In the world of magic, levitation looks like a simple spell. In movies and TV series, characters lift objects with a wave of their hand or a successful use of force. However, in the real world, ...

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden ...

Researchers examine how considering age and regional factors to QALY estimates can improve healthcare policy decisions and ...