It can look almost too easy: athletes gliding along on a bike, runners shuffling at a pace slower than most people’s warm-up, ...

Where typical ocean tides average about three feet, the Bay of Fundy’s record-setting tides soar over 50. This means 160 ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming ...

I recently asked myself if I’ll still have a healthy brain as I get older. I hold a professorship at a neurology department.

In October 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency must release its decision on the use of America’s most widely used ...

The irreproducibility crisis of modern science—the failure of large proportions of scientific research to produce true ...

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, ...

Can you melt wood? Most of the time, the answer is no. But as with many things in science, under the right circumstances, it ...

In 1987, Steven Weinberg wrote a cute little paper entitled “Anthropic Bound on the Cosmological Constant”. I say cute little ...

I recently asked myself if I’ll still have a healthy brain as I get older. I hold a professorship at a neurology department. Nevertheless, it is difficult for me to judge if a ...