Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave ...

Ramanujan's pi-computing machinery exactly mirrors the necessary structure in modern physical theories (LCFTs).

NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during the Artemis IV mission to the lunar south polar ...

Millions of people struggle with lower back pain worldwide. Now, surprising new research from the University of South ...

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Here’s what you'll learn in this story: In 1907, a physician named Duncan MacDougall published a controversial paper, claiming the human soul weighs just 21 grams. In his experiment, MacDougall used ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government. “They have cancelled wholesale a ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

LAST THURSDAY, ACCORDING TO A WHITE HOUSE press release, “President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order revitalizing the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and reestablishing ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The number of basic science papers published by recipients of ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1984, but he would change that major if he were in college today. Nvidia CEO Jensen ...