Neither purely pie nor porch prop, the pumpkin haunts the boundary between science and superstition — a gourd so undefinable ...

Current laws that deem species safe from extinction ignore their ecological role, geographic range and genetic diversity, as ...

Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

Separate brain processes cope with moment-to-moment versus big-picture experiences, which helps explain how parenting both ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

So, "settled science" does not mean we know something with absolute certainty, but that the weight of evidence is heavily in ...

As debates over science, meaning, and morality grow ever more polarized, a groundbreaking, accurate, and easy-to-read new book arriving in English invites readers to reconsider one of humanity’s most ...

The Lady of Baza (Granada) (Chapa et al., 2020) and pottery from necropolis of Piquía (Arjona, Jaén). Credit: Alberto Sánchez A pioneering study from the University of Jaén reveals, through ...

For years, artificial intelligence companies have heralded the coming of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. OpenAI, which makes the chatbot ChatGPT, has said that their founding goal was to ...