In a stunning piece of research, Stanford neuroscientists have hunted down a single gene that encodes a protein responsible for age-related cognitive losses, targeted it with special blocking antibodies, and shown in mice that these antibodies can re ...

People who overclaim their level of knowledge and are impressed by pseudo-profound bullshit are also more likely to believe fake news, according to new research published in the Journal of Personality. “I’ve long had an interest in the pitfalls (and ...

You may not have noticed it, but there’s a feeding frenzy under way in the tech world. Traditionally, such frenzies are driven by greed. This one, interestingly, is driven by fear, though you’d never guess that from its cover story, which is that it’ ...

Science fiction met space fact this week in the Seattle area when the cast of “The Expanse,” the science-fiction jewel in Amazon’s streaming-video crown, got a look at Blue Origin’s spaceship. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the common denominator in the me ...

A Tennessee woman has been awarded nearly half a million dollars after a furniture company illegally hounded her with hundreds of robocalls, sometimes more than 10 times per day, even after she asked them to no longer contact her, per court records. ...

If the shows on Apple’s new TV service turn out to be as smugly evangelistic, self-indulgent and editorially undisciplined as the launch event for the product, streamed from California on Monday, then it will be very bad news for Apple subscribers an ...

Shell has re-branded energy and broadband provider First Utility as Shell Energy and switched the firm's residential customers in Britain to a 100 percent renewable electricity supply. In an announcement Monday, Shell said that customers of Shel ...

Major meat company the Kerry Group has revealed it is planning to enter the plant-based market, to capitalize on the growing flexitarian sector. It is the latest in the number of major meat brands which has acknowledged the significant number of peop ...

If you’re one of the 115 million Americans who heads to work in a vehicle, on a daily basis, odds are there are few things that frustrate you more than getting stuck at a red light. Unfortunately, those precious minutes you spend waiting for a light ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that use of the synthetic psychedelic 5-methocy-N,-N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) appears to be associated with unintended improvements in self-reported depression and anxiety when given in a ceremonial gro ...

Students planning to catch up on “Game of Thrones” during class at Purdue University will have to find new ways to entertain themselves. When students return from spring break Monday, they will find access to Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Pandora and other ...

Cancel the cheese omelet. There is sobering news for egg lovers who have been happily gobbling up their favorite breakfast since the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans no longer limited how much dietary cholesterol or how many eggs they could ...

NASA is considering launching its Orion crew capsule on a commercial rocket rather than the Space Launch System, the agency's own megarocket that is currently under development. The Space Launch System (SLS) is a super-heavy-lift launch vehicle ...

Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who shared military and diplomatic secrets with WikiLeaks in 2010, has been taken into custody today for refusing to testify before a grand jury, according to The Washington Post. Manning was subp ...

In the early Middle Ages, nearly one out of every thousand people in the world lived in Angkor, the sprawling capital of the Khmer Empire in present-day Cambodia. But by the 1500s, Angkor had been mostly abandoned—its temples, citadels, and complex i ...

R Kelly won’t escape correctional facility until Monday or Tuesday as plans are made to pay the 100,000 US dollars (£76,000) safeguard expected to free him while he anticipates preliminary on charges of irritated sexual maltreatment, his legal counse ...

The onslaught of negative Rotten Tomatoes reviews for Captain Marvel has seen the film plunge to the lowest-rating of all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. Nearly two weeks ahead of its release, Captain Marvel currently has a 45% Audience Rating ...

A Japanese spacecraft is set to touch down on a distant asteroid Thursday, before shooting a bullet into the space rock to capture a bit of debris that eventually will be returned to Earth. Launched in 2014 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( ...

There's no two-ways about it, the Universe is an extremely big place! And thanks to the limitations placed upon us by Special Relativity, traveling to even the closest star systems could take millennia.

Federal plans to complete a continuous wall along the U.S.-Mexico boundary would threaten the existence of numerous plant and animal species. Stanford’s Paul Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo look at the region’s unique natural ecosystems, and what they have ...