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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A newly authenticated notebook from 22-year-old Mozart reveals unheard music and a rare glimpse of his lessons in Paris.

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, ...

At a Cretaceous lake in what is now northwestern China, paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of ancient birds ...

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 a 519-person clinical trial, men taking VDPHL01 grew roughly four times as many new non-vellus hairs as men taking placebo ...