People talk more about past events than future ones—and memories hold clues for navigating the present The arrival of a new ...

Jeremy R. Manning is a computational cognitive neuroscientist at Dartmouth College. His research group studies how people ...

February 1: The thin, four-day-old crescent moon will be just a few degrees from Venus, making a lovely pair. Look for them in the sky in the southwest after sunset. When you observe the moon, see if ...

It’s official: 2024 is the hottest year on record—and the first to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above ...

Damages from the recent fires in the Los Angeles area could overwhelm California’s already stressed insurer of last resort ...

In California and elsewhere, fast-moving fires are particularly damaging and expensive because they take people by surprise, ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

Gabriela Saldivia is a freelance audio producer, editor and sound engineer. She currently works for  Duolingo, Patreon, and ...

The nature of the Santa Ana winds makes them perfectly suited to fueling blazes like the Palisades Fire, and climate change ...

Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms worsen right before and during a period, a new study finds, and this could ...