A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Regina Barber and Katia Riddle of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about prehistoric cooking, earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest and how teens are sleeping less than before.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Why do we tip—even when we know we’ll never see the server again? New research suggests it’s not just about rewarding good ...

A crash involving the planet’s largest moon, Titan, and a hypothetical moon may have triggered a curious sequence of events ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

For years, specialists have been trying to understand how the massive stones of Stonehenge were brought to their current location, a debate that mainly pits two scenarios against each other: transport ...

Is reality an illusion a digital projection built on data and design? Simulation theory suggests that everything we know, from the laws of physics to our own thoughts, may be nothing more than code ...