For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

Confocal microscope image of a fruit fly brain. (Louise Cheng) Not every region of your brain is equally susceptible to cancer. Over many decades of treating brain cancer, doctors have noticed ...

Has there ever been an episode of presidential corruption so blatant and threatening to constitutional order? Certainly not ...

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked structure underlying human language, revealing patterns that extend beyond traditional measures of emotion.

It is from large perceptions combined with impersonal emotion that wisdom most readily springs. Bertrand Russell What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the ...

On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of ...

Eileen Wang, now the former mayor of the City of Arcadia, agreed to plead guilty to one felony charge that she acted as an illegal foreign agent of China.

For most people who have ever opened an introductory geology book, the Grand Canyon arrives as a single, tidy picture. Sand at the bottom, mud above it, limestone on top, all sweeping gently across an ...

David Bamman studies culture at a scale few humans ever could. An associate professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, Bamman uses computational methods to analyze books, films and music, ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

There are times when getting out of bed and tackling the day, or just staying focused during a long day, can seem like an almost insurmountable challenge. The weather is beautiful, and you want to ...