Reality is stranger than you think. Seriously. While we go about our daily lives, convinced we understand the basics of ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...

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Butterfly wings get their color in ways that almost feel impossible. Up close, each wing is made of countless tiny scales that either hold pigment or manipulate light. The oranges, reds, and browns ...

19. The largest known prime number contains 41,024,320 digits. 20. Frogs breathe and drink through their skin. 21. A bullet ...

Although science often advances through tried-and-tested methods, sometimes scientists have to find creative ways to test ...

UC Berkeley professors Hillel Adesnik, Laura Waller, and Rikky Muller, and UC Berkeley graduate student Liz Murray pose in Waller’s lab with a prototype of their neurotechnology for two-way ...

Anyone around in the 1980s might recall the hand wringing over “test tube” babies, conceived in IVF labs. Today, more than 1 in 50 babies in the US are conceived by IVF. But on the horizon are ...

Think your brain’s taking a vacation when you’re sleeping? Think again. Scientists at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin just dropped some major knowledge bombs about what’s really going down during ...