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, ...

A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to “see” images from memory rather than what’s actually in front of it. Long before modern ...

A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to “see” images from memory rather than what’s actually in front of it. Long before modern laboratory testing, i ...

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence for our sun joining a mass migration of similar "twins" leaving the core regions of our galaxy, 4 to 6 billion years ago. The team created and studied an ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 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.