Polar bear numbers are rising in a once too-frigid Arctic basin
Thick Arctic ice is melting into conditions better suited to life. But the region's warming is trending towards trouble
Your language brain matters more for learning programming than your math brain
New research contradicts long held assumptions about coding
Your brain adjusts your body's clock according to all the colors of the rainbow
Springing forward for daylight saving time means less blue light, but also light contrasts
A failed Alzheimer's drug stops cancer cells from shedding their coats and hiding from the immune system
A chance reading and a fortuitous overlap between Alzheimer's and multiple myeloma biology gave a failed drug new life
Scientists sent thoughts from brain to brain with nothing in between
It's not sci-fi, it's not mind control, but a real world attempt at telepathy
"Poached" takes you into the trenches of wildlife crime
Rachel Love Nuwer explains how and why illegal trade threatens to wipe some of our planet's most charismatic animals off the map forever
With new technology, mind control is no longer science-fiction
We can only transmit basic signals between brains, but we should consider the ethics before moving on to complex thoughts
Simulating evolution helped scientists design a better virus
It sounds like an arcane superpower. It boils down to random mutation and selection
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The beautiful merger of art and science that inspired generations of neuroscientists
"Perhaps only an artist's eye could have seen so much in a slice of brain"
The furious pace of modern research is creating a gnarly statistics problem
The truth is a needle in an ever-growing haystack. Scientists need better statistical education to find it