Why does science keep changing its mind? 🤯 Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how new discoveries, evidence, and questioning old ideas drive progress—and why changing conclusions is actually a strength of ...

Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...

For decades a small number of hardy souls have celebrated New Year’s in the most bracing way possible — jumping into icy water for a festive “polar plunge.” The obvious downsides of the practice long ...

The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desk has had a busy 2025: Our writers have spent the year probing the limits of human consciousness and gene-editing technology, studying the ubiquity of ...

A major international review has upended long-held ideas about how top performers are made. By analyzing nearly 35,000 elite achievers across science, music, chess, and sports, researchers found that ...

Science Corporation, founded by former Neuralink president Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods. Science Corporation, the brain-computer ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. Religion and science can often seem in opposition, at least culturally. But they don’t have to be, say Marc Siegel and Francis Collins. Siegel, who is ...

To get a better understanding of how structured breathing patterns can reshape both body and mind, let's delve into the science behind Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (also known as SKY Breath). From nervous ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...