The vagus nerve is the autonomic nervous system’s highway, connecting every major organ ...

A recent survey found that a majority of Americans support psychedelic use for medical reasons. Psilocybin and MDMA in ...

Humans, as an evolutionary group, are often said to be losing their sense of smell. “But our sense of smell is not simply ...

Some 540 million years ago, life on Earth suddenly got interesting. For 20 million years or so, evolution went into overdrive. Called the Cambrian explosion, scientists have no idea why it happened.

When Farin Kamangar was training as a physician in the 1980s, he asked patients about three lifestyle factors that could affect their health: alcohol, smoking and coffee. Though coffee didn’t have the ...

Scientists have crossed a threshold in artificial intelligence: using the technology, researchers have created real viruses ...

Colombia rocked by 7.4 magnitude earthquake—its largest in the past decade This seismic event is of a similar magnitude to ...

This summer has been marked by multiple outbreaks of foodborne illness, with thousands of infections and two deaths arising ...

World ocean temperatures hit a record high for July this year, according to a new report from the European Union’s Copernicus ...

The president called for the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to be split into separate shots, despite decades of research showing that the MMR vaccine is safe and effective ...

Unbeknownst to them, the puzzle would help launch a profound branch of modern math about order among chaos and spark a ...

Dogs are known to recognize and respond to human facial expressions, but a new study shows how deeply they understand our mood ...