The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst.

Companies are going to great lengths to protect the infrastructure that provides the backbone of the world’s digital services—by burying their data deep underground.

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare.

These five equations should be part of your mental toolkit. They might even improve your bowling score.

Trials of vision-improving substances are showing good results, though so far only two have been authorized for use in the United States.

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant planets are awaiting confirmation.

Mindstate Design Labs, backed by Silicon Valley power players, has created what its CEO calls “the least psychedelic psychedelic that’s psychoactive.”

Climate change, pollution, and fishing are pushing oceans closer to their limits at an unprecedented rate. The pressure of that human impact is expected to double by 2050, according to a new study.

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.

A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it’s feasible is another matter.

A fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive model to train another model for less.

The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and 24/7 lectures.

These innovative pavings convert the kinetic energy of footsteps into clean electric energy.

A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay.

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from outer space—specifically via a collision with a Mars-sized planet billions of years ago.

A House Oversight Committee hearing produced a flood of bizarre claims about cloud seeding, chemtrails, and solar geoengineering. Proven, human-driven changes to the weather were dismissed.