Most people learn to count and do basic arithmetic at a young age and don’t give these skills a second thought. But numerosity or numeracy, the ability to think about and use numbers, is more ...

On his first day back in office as United States president, Donald Trump gave formal notice of his nation’s exit from the ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered blood markers associated with sudden infant ...

Maternal stress hormone levels during early pregnancy can have a lasting effect on the stress system of the offspring. The ...

Macquarie University researchers have worked with an international team of scientists to achieve a major milestone in ...

Women are born with two X chromosomes and inherit one from each parent. But in every cell of their body, just one X ...

In 1968, the American Heart Association made an announcement that would influence people’s diets for decades: they ...

On his first day back in office as United States president, Donald Trump gave formal notice of his nation’s exit from the Paris Agreement – a vital global treaty seeking ...

Most politicians totally misunderstand the trouble that artificial intelligence is going to bring. This isn’t a race for profit, it’s a race for power. And that p ...

In 1998, a pharmaceutical company suddenly lost the ability to make their lifesaving HIV drug at one of its production facilities. Then that failure spread to the company’s analy ...

(via Sixty Symbols) Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla answer a viewer question about the rights/wrongs of String Theory and its proof.

A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal ‘megaflood’ refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period ...