Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann developed optogenetics, which uses light and genetics to control individual ...

Movement and creativity go hand in hand. Scientists are working to discover why Luke Borsten, age 38, has been backpacking and making music since childhood. Today the Portland, Ore.–based filmmaker ...

Amanda Loudin is a freelance writer whose work has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic and elsewhere.

Known as “poop maxxing,” or more politely, “fiber maxxing,” there is a swell of enthusiasm for high-fiber foods, regular ...

Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together ...

The ancient pre- Roman society of Etruria in central Italy, for example, embedded sound throughout its culture, using ritual ...

In the movie, a giant iceberg from Greenland floats into the sea, imperiling millions—but is that even possible?

The nonprofit start-up Pioneer Labs claims to have made the first-ever “microbe for Mars.” Other experts aren’t so sure ...

Today Project Suncatcher is sending four AI processors into orbit on a SpaceX rocket to see whether the building blocks of a ...

Google’s first step toward putting data centers in space is officially underway. On Thursday, October 1 at approximately 2:32 ...

There is good news here: millions of cancers are preventable, says Gary Clifford, the study’s senior author and an ...

Mathematicians love to collect elegant, profound questions that defy proof: the longer the holdout, the better. And one day ...