Movement and creativity go hand in hand. Scientists are working to discover why Luke Borsten, age 38, has been backpacking and making music since childhood. Today the Portland, Ore.–based filmmaker ...

Known as “poop maxxing,” or more politely, “fiber maxxing,” there is a swell of enthusiasm for high-fiber foods, regular ...

Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann developed optogenetics, which uses light and genetics to control individual ...

Amanda Loudin is a freelance writer whose work has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic and elsewhere.

Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together ...

The ancient pre- Roman society of Etruria in central Italy, for example, embedded sound throughout its culture, using ritual ...

A basketball player’s free throw percentage describes how often they successfully throw the ball into the basket from the free throw line in official games. If a player’s free throw percentage is ...

Jacqueline Ortoleva is a Leverhulme early career research fellow at the University of Oxford, in England ...

Pascal Vrticka is an associate professor at the University of Essex in the U.K.

Maurizio Forte is professor of classical studies art at Duke University.

In the movie, a giant iceberg from Greenland floats into the sea, imperiling millions—but is that even possible?

It’s been a blistering year for the U.S. The first eight months of 2026 were the hottest such period ever recorded in the contiguous U.S. since at least 1895. That puts 2026 on track to being among ...