Does childbirth increase your chance of breast cancer? Yes. But it also decreases it in the longterm ...depending on how old ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the ...

In a stark demonstration of how award-winning breakthroughs can come from the most unlikely directions, researchers have won an Ig Nobel prize for discovering that mammals can breathe through their ...

Chimeric antigen-receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy has been an amazing story overall. People had been trying to turn T cells against various sorts of tumors for a long time, because they're pretty ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

The groans of pain as we get up from the sofa or the sound of crunching cartilage when taking the stairs are all too familiar. Many of us look down at our aching knees and curse them – wondering why ...

Last month, NASA canceled the VIPER mission to the lunar surface.

I’ve been an avid stargazer for a fair few decades now and not once have I seen anything that makes me believe we are being visited by aliens! My own experiences aside, there’s no evidence of alien ...

Dark matter is thought to be the most prevalent form of matter in the Universe, comprising about five times as much mass as the ordinary matter found in stars and galaxies. There’s only one problem: ...

Science has lost its way, and it’s been a story decades in the making. The COVID-19 pandemic brought this detour into sharp focus, accelerating the credibility gap and contributing to a rising loss of ...

If you could live forever, would you? Modern medicine has allowed us to drastically increase our lifespans, and science doesn’t appear to be slowing down. Some in Silicon Valley have embarked on a ...

Have you ever been in a high-stakes situation in which you needed to perform but completely bombed? You’re not alone. Experiments in monkeys reveal that ‘choking’ under pressure is linked to a drop in ...