Quantum mechanics has always included mind-bending ideas. But the concept of quantum entanglement, famously termed “spooky at a distance” by... more

Sloppy by modern standards — and maybe even those back then — a 1955 article on the placebo effect by... more

The fossil Archaeopteryx forever changed our understanding of dinosaurs and the origin of birds, but it took a... more

A key report to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 warned that humankind was “unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment”... more

Serendipitous discoveries led to drugs like Prozac and to new insights into the physical basis of this debilitating disorder. But... more

PODCAST: They started out so small, one could fit on the palm of your hand, but to make groundbreaking discoveries, physicists... more

Digging — quite literally — into our planet’s past to study its paleoclimate has shed light on bygone ice ages... more

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Not that long ago, scientists found evidence that our Sun wasn’t unique — other stars have their own orbiting bodies.... more

Freud thought that dreams were the gateway to our unconscious mind. Today, many scientists think the opposite: that the dreaming... more