We're in our bodies every day, but how well do we really know them? From how the brain supports higher-level thinking to why ...

From the inner workings of a human body to fascinating concepts of chemical processes, ecosystems, and outer space, these ...

A fun GK quiz exploring strange human experiences like déjà vu, sleep paralysis, and brain glitches, explaining how science ...

Drugmakers continue to test weight-loss medicines against dummy pills and shots, even with a growing number of effective approved obesity drugs. This practice raises practical questions.

Imagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an ...

States don't limit the age at which you can have a license, but the search is on for a better way to screen those whose skills may be deteriorating.

Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments revealed how ordinary people could follow authority to disturbing extremes, with many ...

Three experts discuss lessons learnt from a large-scale dissection of the reproducibility, analytical robustness and replicability of published results. Jelte M. Wicherts is in the Department of ...

The Cognitive Reflection Test may only have three questions, but just 17 per cent of people manage to get them all right – can you?

Large language model artificial intelligence applications (LLM AIs) seem poised to have a significant effect on the practice ...

The human brain operates as a tireless prediction machine. It watches a dropped glass and anticipates the shatter. It listens ...