We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the ...

A New Golden Age” receive such a warm reception, and thrilling to see the enthusiasm with which leaders from across government, industry, philanthropy, and the academy are stepping forward to ...

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There was a time when bookstores devoted entire shelves to brain fitness even though no one really called it that. Crossword collections. Sudoku. Memory games. Later came adult coloring books. Each ...

Illustration by Ryan Olbrysh for TIME (Source Images: See bottom of page) Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we asked scientists, scholars, researchers, and doctors ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

At dawn in late January 1998, two men entered the home of Betty Black in Farmers Branch, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. They killed her in an apparent burglary gone wrong. A few hours later, an eyewitness ...