Color-blind people may be less picky eaters. Here's why.
Seeing the world with a restricted color palate seems to tone down an emotion-based resistance to new foods.
Seeing the world with a restricted color palate seems to tone down an emotion-based resistance to new foods.
An angular roughshark pulled from the water near Elba, an Italian island near Tuscany.
China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.
Soap has a pretty simple formula and a long history.
"Human evolution has occurred both due to, and in spite of, the placenta. Every pregnancy, unthinkingly, must navigate a careful path through it. Every menstruation is testament to it. It is partly why menopause exists, to give individuals an escape from the energetic costs associated with its imposition."
The Earth's core may be much younger than previously thought.
Sept. 14, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation influences how the brain perceives pain in ways that are distinct from the placebo effect.
Giving children saline nose drops at the start of a cold may shorten its duration and reduce the likelihood that they will pass the illness to others, a study hints. But it has some caveats.
The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is being hit with unusually heavy rain. Scientists are unclear why, but it may be linked to a subdued Atlantic hurricane season.
Satellite data suggest a volcano in Tanzania that expels extremely runny lava could be creeping toward an eruption.
The growing "gateway to the underworld," officially known as the Batagay megaslump, is the largest megaslump in the world and exposes permafrost layers that are 650,000 years old.
When exposed to terms common in different racial dialects, large language models make racist assumptions about people from particular racial groups, even without explicitly knowing their race.
Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts' abdomens while they're still alive.
Archaeologists have unearthed a set of uniquely decorated bracelets on the site of a "large and powerful" Viking Age farm.
With Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is safely back on Earth, NASA says Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams could have returned onboard.
Many patients with ALS die within three to five years of their symptoms starting, so early diagnosis of the disease is critical for treatment.
Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died.
The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a "living fossil." A new discovery reveals that it evolved faster when plate tectonics were most active.