With more than 100 million neurons in the digestive tract, the gut is commonly known as the “second brain” in numerous ...

For the first time, scientists have observed how tiny metal "thorns" called dendrites sprout inside lithium-ion batteries, ...

From flavored yogurts to frozen pizzas, breakfast cereals and instant oats, ultra-processed foods are convenient, often cheaper items designed for a quick bite. In recent years, excess consumption of ...

Jim Al-Khalili chronicles the technologies emerging from the second quantum revolution: Computers that exploit superposition to solve problems that would take today's best supercompute ...

It would have been strange to read an article in the 1980s about Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika reforms that ...

Bananas are one of the world’s most popular fruits. They’re a staple crop in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In the US, the average person eats more than 25 pounds of bananas pe ...

(via Big Think) 75,000 years before the first city was built, humans were already engineering their world with a ...

Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

(via TEDEd) At age 44, Xie Qiuping cut her hair for the first time in over three decades. Her impressive locks extended over 5 meters — earning the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest hair.

Why are stop lights red? The common explanation about red light traveling farther through fog is actually wrong. The real ...

Low testosterone in itself can cause a variety of health problems, but the addition of a poor diet can exacerbate certain conditions. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) i ...

Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...