Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat despite scientists explaining how we know the Earth is round since the third century B.C.

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In this episode of Big Ideas from the team behind Deep Look, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the ...

You’re at a pretend tea party, but instead of sitting across from toddlers in tiaras, you’re clinking cups with Kanzi—an ape ...

Most people know plastic pollution is bad news. But a small group of scientists says that we should pause all ocean plastic cleanup efforts.

Ticks have evolved different techniques to survive winter. They stay deep down in the leaf litter close to the forest floor ...

In this Q&A with the authors of a recent book about Bigfoot hunters, they admit these people are neither anti-science nor irrational.

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

Waiting for news about life on Mars? You’re 120 years late. That story broke on Dec. 9, 1906, when The New York Times ran a major piece under the brooking-no-argument headline, “There Is Life on the ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Doomsday may be inching closer, if scientists believe climate change, artificial intelligence and misinformation are increasing risks to humanity. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will determine ...