The fossil had been sitting in a drawer at the Field Museum in Chicago under the wrong name, and nobody had looked at it closely enough to notice. It had been collected years earlier at Mazon Creek in ...

If I master mnemonic techniques or speed reading, wouldn't that help improve alcohol dependence?”I came up with this ...

She was doing a rapid-fire interview with a magazine.

When a researcher types a prompt into a large language model and receives a polished paragraph in return, who wrote the paper ...

Yersinia pestis has shaped centuries of history, from Justinian to the Black Death to Bombay. One death in Irkutsk puts it ...

The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.

I wrote about peer review a little while ago, but since I have more to say, I am writing about it again. Peer review is not intended to point out the flaws in a paper. Its purpose is to evaluate the ...

2026 Subaru WRX vs Honda Civic Si: AWD, 271 hp, and similar pricing — which sports sedan wins on road and on paper?

In a digital age, paper books are as popular as ever. But why do we hang on to them after we’ve read them? And what’s a ...

The cast of 2026’s Celebrity Traitors is full of brainy people, so here’s a closer look at where they all went to university.

Following closely behind is the GR Supra in fourth place. This two-door sports car on its last legs still manages to retain ...

Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.