Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

The human body is utterly fascinating. But just when you think you’ve got a grip on everything there is to know, science progresses and throws you a curveball.

A surgeon cuts open your knee, looks around, sews it back up without touching a thing, and suddenly your pain is gone. A ...

Being right has a price. Is it worth paying?

Because she grew up unvaccinated, she has a special insight into why people choose to opt out of vaccine schedules and what ...

K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.

Younger students have regained ground academically after the pandemic, while older students’ test scores continue to stagnate ...

Meet a scatty skeleton tasked with guarding the gates of the underworld, set sail on an epic voyage alongside the Greek king ...

The Dinosaur Park in Cedar Creek, Texas makes that argument for you by populating nature trails with life-sized prehistoric ...

The story of GLP-1 drugs keeps getting bigger. First they transformed the treatment of diabetes. Then they upended the science — and culture — of weight loss. Now a growing body of research is raising ...

Because we, very sadly, can’t speak to them, we don’t often know all the cool things animals can do or even get up to. But ...