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The "Monty Hall problem" is a classic example of how games of chance can have surprising results. Here’s a fun way to model the problem.

Four people will cohabitate in a small prototype Martian dwelling, mimicking the isolation and stresses of life on the Red Planet.

Doughnut-makers are reinventing the sugary treat in response to the UK’s new food display rules. But will healthier confections satisfy your cravings?

The injectable weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy are already popular. Oral forms could lead to even more demand.

A Sign in Space encourages the public to imagine what a real message from extraterrestrials might be like—and figure out how to interpret it.

Three years ago, the FDA declared a manufacturing free-for-all. Now a noxious brew of leftover product is catching fire and making people sick.

Hospitals are evolving at warp speed, and autonomous surgical robots are just the beginning.

Prolonged exposure to strobe lights has a psychedelic effect, which researchers are investigating as a way to heal the brain.

The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works.

The number of ocean going birds has declined 70 percent since the 1950s, but restoring their populations can bolster marine ecosystems that sequester carbon.

Before you go prospecting in the nearest river, here’s the science of what separates the rocks from the good stuff.

Scientists are “watching with bated breath” to see if ice will return to normal levels. The planetary consequences could be huge.

Allergy rates are on the rise. Blame climate change and people’s urbanized lifestyles.

Ocean creatures soak up huge amounts of humanity’s carbon mess. Should we value them like financial assets?

Women’s health care and outcomes have long come a poor second to those of men. But new initiatives and a wave of healthtech innovators may finally rebalance […]

Antibody treatments clear amyloid protein from patients’ brains, slowing the progression of their disease but potentially inducing deadly swelling.

Scientists are testing ways to construct buildings on Mars and the moon without hauling materials from Earth. One possible solution: 3D printed melted regolith.

The Big Apple is subsiding under its own weight. But other coastal cities are also dramatically descending, just as seas are rising.

Treatment in utero could cure diseases before birth. Recent advances in lab animals may bring medicine closer to achieving it—but this field is still in its […]

Economic data expert Gaya Herrington says overconsumption has brought the world to a dangerous tipping point, but there’s still time to act.