Claire Cameron

A provocative new study suggests the microbes that live in your gut could reveal critical details about your health — and your death.

Transitioning between the sexes allows these fish species to survive and thrive.

Here's what the future really could look like.

This is still a major cause for concern today.

Here are the ways we learned to live better, happier, and longer in 2019.

From feral hogs to sustainable diets, these stories are unmissable.

Things got weird this year. Real weird.

They're sexy. They're creepy. They live in the uncanny valley.

The psychedelic experience has a lot in common with sensory overload.

"Nature is fundamentally trying to tell us something that we haven’t considered in our planetary models."

Time to retire several tired stereotypes about how young people are self-centered snowflakes.

The drug may return the brain to a teenage "critical period,' re-opening neural plasticity.

This so-called miracle tonic, marketed as a ‘treatment’ for myriad health conditions, has the FDA worried.

Finally, a species we managed to save rather than annihilate. For now.

At 40 billion solar masses, this black hole breaks records.

Our planet is home to some truly fantastic beasts.

The first-ever recording of a blue whale's heart rate reveals why they win the size game -- and why they aren't even *bigger*.

"You can’t even pay math-anxious individuals to do hard problems."

Here’s how you can catch a fleeting glimpse of our Solar System’s smallest planet on its orbital journey.

No, the sexes are not hard-wired to process mathematical information differently, scientists say.