Musicians respond to pain differently than other people, a startling new study says.
Previous research shows that persistent pain shrinks a part…

Musicians respond to pain differently than other people, a startling new study says.
Previous research shows that persistent pain shrinks a part…

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about the origins of…

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about the origins of…

One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the known universe.
Now process this: Harvard scientists just unveiled a system that was 10…

You might look at cooking as the straightforward act of preparing food to eat, but there’s a lot more to it — and a lot of it is science. In “Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, From Homemade to Haute Cuisine,” Harvard chemist Pia Sörensen, applied mathematician Michael Brenner,…

The Big Bang may have actually been the explosive rebound of a collapsing black hole – one which our entire Universe could still be inside of.
That’s the claim of a new study led by Enrique Gaztañaga at the University of Portsmouth. The paper suggests the Big Bang was actually a ‘Big…

You’re neck-deep in IKEA assembly instructions. Furniture parts lie strewn across the floor. Your new purchase sits half-complete in front of…

On TikTok, vagus nerve stimulation sounds like a miracle cure. Influencers claim it can help with a long list of ailments,…