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The human body is often described as a marvel of "perfect design": elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from ...

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could explain dark matter, one of the biggest unsolved questions in ...

Four humans recently looped around the Moon. Their vessel, an Artemis capsule, was a thin metal shell whose life-support system kept them alive: it provided a carefully balanced atmosphere, a closed ...

Insomnia may have been torturing humanity since ancient times, but over the last 20 years scientists have made progress in their understanding of chronic sleep deprivation. Today, sleep deprivation ...

During the fall semester of 2025, I taught a graduate seminar entitled "Darwinian Thought and Society." While teaching should always derive from generosity and a desire to share knowledge, my ...

The Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, just published by the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), has ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how memory works - and what we can do to use it more effectively ...

"Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project": that's the headline from reports on the latest mass replication project sponsored by the Center for Open Science ...