The human brain did not evolve to wake up with an alarm clock, check strangers’ achievements on social media, learn about the latest global disaster and calculate its social worth before breakfast.

Restored Jin zhe si gourd earrings produced through experimental reconstruction. Credit: npj Heritage Science, 2026. A pair of Ming Dynasty earrings looked, at first glance, as if someone had spun ...

The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people living in the American colonies 250 years ago.

These giant machines break down manure and local food waste to produce biogas. This renewable natural gas, or RNG, is then typically transported for use as electricity, heating and fuel. But at Lent ...

New York-based journalist covering climate, agriculture and the food industry. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The New Republic, Sierra Magazine, Salon, Baltimore Banner, The New Lede, ...

Tonight, as you drift toward sleep, your mind may begin to dream before your brain has officially crossed into sleep. You may ...

Anthropic wants to prove its chatbot can do more than write code or summarize documents. It wants Claude to help invent new drugs and treatments. At a San Francisco event on the 30th of June, 2026, ...

Researchers have discovered a planet which, by all intents and purposes, should not be there. The world, coined WD 1856 b, is slightly larger than Jupiter and circles a dead star only about the size ...

Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe’s population in late neolithic times – from around 5,600 to 4,000 years ago? In Europe, the neolithic is part of the Stone Age, ...

In mice, scientists have now nudged that same emergency repair program onto a different path. By applying two growth signals ...

A bizarre 212 million year old crocodile relative walked on two legs like a dinosaur, with a toothless beak and tiny arms.