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Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...

Taking all this together, the spontaneous activity reshaping hypothesis – our new theory that imagination carves images out ...

A team of scientists has identified a new physical mechanism that could help explain one of the most persistent mysteries in ...

The security of every nation faces an increasingly severe and frequent threat: disruptions to nature. In this Q&A, Bradley J. Cardinale, Penn State professor of ecosystem science and management, ...

Most people love the ocean, but few of us are eager to be a shark snack, thus shark repellent, but how well do these devices ...

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman expressed concerns about a potential economic collapse in a post-AGI world, where companies might ...

When an earthquake rupturing along a fault hits a barrier, it creates a seismic signature called the “stopping phase.” ...

Some biographies are built around revelation. Others proceed by accumulation, assembling a life from fragments that resist ...

Readers asked Dr. Gerry Wright about how his lab operates, how citizens can help with research and the difficulties of ...

As far as research subjects go, it's not always easy to find common ground with a single-celled bacterium. Yet the more Paul ...

One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...