Science

Five days of indulging in chocolate bars, crisps and other junk foods can lead to lingering changes in brain activity, a study shows1. The resulting brain patterns are similar to those seen in people who have obesity.

On November 26, 2003, the plane that was once heralded as the future of aviation—the Concorde—took its final flight to Bristol, U.K.

Your dog might seem just as grumpy about the time change as you are—but scientists actually studied their responses.

Clinical trials from the UK to Japan are exploring man-made substitutes for blood.

Whether mice persist with a task, explore new options or give up comes down to the activity of three types of neuron in the brain.

In grammar, we learn about the past, present, and future tenses from an early age. This shapes our understanding of time as a one-way arrow. Eggs break, but don’t un-break; we grow older, but never grow younger; you can form a snowman, but it will inevitably melt back into a pool of slush again.

It may be difficult to believe in this time of Zoom, Google Meet, and Slack, but at one point, Skype was one of the primary ways to make contact with friends, family, and colleagues.

I left private equity to work on shrimp welfare. When I tell anyone this, they usually think I've lost my mind. I know the feeling — I’ve been there.

Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the world's population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the 1970s.

By breaking up clusters of cancer cells, an old heart drug called digoxin may help stop tumors from spreading to other organs, a small trial shows.