In the last few years, there’s been a lot of interest in calorie-restricted diets for weight loss. These can vary significantly, from intermittent fasting (where you restrict eating to a certain ...

In Isaac Asimov’s 1942 story Runaround, a robot named SPD-13 (Speedy) malfunctions while on a critical mission to save his human operators from roasting to death under the planet Mercury’s relentless ...

Speech contains a lot of information in it besides just the content of your words. Pauses, tone, emphasis, and more can convey a lot of meaning on their own. But according to a new paper published in ...

Our digital age presents a paradox, says Icelandic sociologist Vidar Halldorsson. Though humans are more connected and accessible to one another in a global and immediate way, our ability to actually ...

Cassie Bongiovanni’s favorite way to show people just how little we know about the seafloor is to open the mapping software on her computer and strip the world map down to what we do know about the ...

“The abyssal plain covers half of the surface of the Earth, but far less than one percent of it has ever been seen,” begins the trailer for new deep-sea documentary, How Deep Is Your Love. Thanks to ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Peter Jones once treated a patient with strikingly vivid hallucinations of animals. During ward visits, the patient would stroke and interact ...

As summer wanes, we’re entering curl-up-with-a-good-book-in-a-cozy-nook season. Bring it on, I say. All the better if it’s a nice, meaty title that gives your grey matter something to chew over. These ...

Around 631,000 years ago—a geological blink of an eye—catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life ...

You don’t actually need to take 10,000 steps a day to stay fit. That figure comes from the marketing campaign for a Japanese pedometer called the Manpo-Kei, which translates to “10,000 steps meter.” ...

With one in five people experiencing some form of chronic pain, it’s a simmering global health problem. Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical solutions come with their own complications, like unequal ...

Most people who develop Alzheimer’s disease are women. In fact, women account for two-thirds of all Alzheimer’s patients—a higher proportion than can be explained merely by their longer lifespans. So ...