As we age, keeping our bodies active helps us stay healthier for longer and protects against chronic disease. We can also exercise our brains to prevent age-related mental decline with activities like ...

Psychological science is really our best shot at making sense of how people think, feel, and act. It’s rooted in old philosophy but runs today on experiments, observation, and data. Back in the late ...

Scientists are also thinking through potential upgrades to further improve LZ, and planning for a next-generation dark matter detector called XLZD. LZ is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, ...

President Trump blasted followers on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday with this dire warning: “Don’t give Tylenol to your young child for virtually any reason.” This statement followed ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. What’s Up for October? A Supermoon takes over, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteors ...

A prominent computer science professor at one of the world’s most prestigious universities says his graduates are struggling to find work — a far cry from just four years ago when they had their pick ...

Under a midnight moon, Luigi Garlaschelli peered out over graves. He was scouting for glowing balls of light known as will-o’-the-wisps. Like a ghostbuster, Garlaschelli, a chemist formerly at the ...

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The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I. increases, ...

We’re about a quarter of the way through the 21st century. Summers across the global north are now defined by flash floods, droughts, heat waves, uncontainable wildfires, and intensifying named storms ...

President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are sentient baseball mitts with opinions. They are very much not doctors. That didn’t stop them from holding a ...