“We record an amazing number of signals when we study sleep,” co-senior researcher Dr. Emmanuel Mignot, a professor of sleep ...

Marine heat waves have become longer and more frequent along the U.S. West Coast, as elsewhere in the world. But heating ...

Mass shootings in white-majority neighborhoods received roughly twice the news coverage of mass shootings in neighborhoods ...

For years people have claimed 'blue zones' hold the secret to long life, believing many residents live longer and healthier ...

Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt social structures and destabilize political systems. An ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

This week, Mad in America examines recent antidepressant research questioning withdrawal severity, a study of unsupported ...

Randomized clinical trials remain the gold standard for establishing a medication's effects, producing the evidence by which ...

Data has revealed the world’s “worst” major tourist attractions, and one notoriously tourist-friendly (or tourist-trapping, ...

Engineers at UC San Diego have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the field of pangenomics ...

Most COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is rooted in concerns that can be addressed and effectively reduced over time, according to a ...

Young people asked their neighbors about the air they breathe, and turned what they learned into a bilingual zine rooted in ...