(via Veritasium) LSD-fiend, surfer, maverick — Kary Mullis might be the weirdest person ever to win the Nobel Prize.

Do you taste something bitter when you hear the right word? Maybe you see a flash of a certain color instead. If so, you might have synesthesia. But it turns out, we're ALL capable of ha ...

A recent investigation of human remains found in the UK’s Cheddar Gorge has once again brought a particularly unsavory aspect ...

Humans may think we have the market cornered on bizarre sexual acts, but the animal kingdom has come up with some mating rituals that put us to shame.

What does a baby know about right and wrong? A foundational finding in moral psychology suggested that even infants have a ...

A new study explores how variations in Mars’ crustal thickness during its ancient history may have influenced the planet’s ...

Northwestern University engineers are the first to successfully demonstrate quantum teleportation over a fiber optic cable ...

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record ...

One of the biggest mysteries in science – dark energy – doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the ...

Today's approach to parenting makes children less resilient, psychologist Line Marie Warholm reports in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. She has written an entire book on the topic. Parents ...

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A group of philosophers and sociologists have come up with the idea to regularly poll scientists in order to establish and ...