Thanks to Einstein, we know one thing about consciousness: It’s inside your head. “Inside” is meant literally here. If you’re in Dallas wearing a hat, your consciousness is in Dallas, under your hat.

In the 1980s, the Indian Forestry Service was facing a deadly problem. Bengal tigers living in a nature preserve were stalking fisherman, honey collectors, and wood cutters, attacking them from behind ...

Speech contains a lot of information in it besides just the content of your words. Pauses, tone, emphasis, and more can convey a lot of meaning on their own. But according to a new paper published in ...

Your brain is talking to your skeleton, and more than you probably realize. For example, doctors have long noticed something odd about people with traumatic brain injuries—their bones heal faster.

Did the Big Bang happen? Has the James Webb Space Telescope found evidence against the Big Bang? If astrophysicists are sure the Big Bang happened, why do they also think the universe was born from a ...

Cassie Bongiovanni’s favorite way to show people just how little we know about the seafloor is to open the mapping software on her computer and strip the world map down to what we do know about the ...

Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity’s great unanswered questions. One way to approach this mystery is to investigate how life began here on Earth. Our ...

If you’ve ever lost some pocket change, it’s possible it could one day resurface as part of an archaeological study. Archaeologists began excavating beneath the walled garden of the Palazzo della ...

The Therizinosauria group of dinosaurs had a very distinctive look. These animals walked on two legs and boasted small, beaked heads at the end of long necks, a covering of feathers, and some of the ...

Our digital age presents a paradox, says Icelandic sociologist Vidar Halldorsson. Though humans are more connected and accessible to one another in a global and immediate way, our ability to actually ...

Around 631,000 years ago—a geological blink of an eye—catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life ...

You don’t actually need to take 10,000 steps a day to stay fit. That figure comes from the marketing campaign for a Japanese pedometer called the Manpo-Kei, which translates to “10,000 steps meter.” ...