Speculation about links among a handful U.S. scientists who have died or disappeared in recent years was largely confined to ...

Gertrude Stein's brief tenure as a student at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is often treated as mere literary trivia, ...

A rare group of adults over 80, known as SuperAgers, are rewriting what we thought was possible for the aging brain. With memory abilities comparable to people decades younger, their brains either ...

A leading physicist argues the brain may operate like a quantum system—and that enhancing it could create humans who perceive ...

More than two-thirds of the public believe at least one false or unproven health claim — such as the idea that taking ...

MIT scientists showed that certain mathematical ideas from everyday classical physics can be used to describe the often weird and nonintuitive behavior that occurs at the quantum, subatomic scale.

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

In the quirky quantum world, particles can be affected by forces that they never directly encounter. A classic example is the ...

Few concepts in physics are as familiar, yet as enigmatic, as time. In Einstein’s theory of relativity, time is not absolute: its passage depends on motion and gravity. But when combined with quantum ...