In the new Adult Swim show “Common Side Effects,” an eccentric scientist has a secret: He’s discovered a strange mushroom that can cure any illness or injury, and he wants to get it to people in need.

Katie Edwards has lost millions of dollars in grant money, bringing her research to a standstill. She’s taking the fight to ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

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David Kessler took GLP-1 drugs to help manage his weight. In his new book, he explains why the drugs are revolutionary, but ...

Microbes—from deep in the ocean to the slime inside your AC—might play a key role in our fight against climate change.

In his new book, a former FDA commissioner unpacks the latest science on metabolism, weight loss, and how GLP-1 drugs ...

Whistling requires attention to your mouth, muscles, and breath. Here’s how it works, and how to get better at it.

A side-by-side comparison of the optimal maximal speed running gait of the Au. afarensis model with modern human-like tricep surae muscle architecture. Credit: Bates, Karl T. et al., 2025 Lucy is one ...

Researchers have observed a population of orcas that cut and position kelp tools between their bodies to scrub each other’s ...

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Is the Hubble constant—a key part of how we measure the expansion of our universe—in a crisis? Some cosmologists say yes.