SCIENCE

By July 1952, UFOs were a hot topic—and Reverend Louis A. Gardner wanted to know Albert Einstein’s thoughts. Did flying saucers come from space? Or were they military technology?

Through the GoodNature Program, you could earn extra money by donating your poop—and help people in the process.

Sinks and countertops get all the bad press, but the most bacteria are actually lurking somewhere else.

The short answer is that no one really knows why we yawn. But people have theories.

From what causes ice ages and how many we’ve had, to the species that thrived and the ones that died, here’s what you need to know.

Summer, winter, and fall may have their fans, but spring is clearly the best season. Even science agrees.

Reusable cloth grocery bags are hailed as a sustainable alternative to plastic, but the truth is more complicated.

While individual bubbles are fragile things, walls of them can muffle a major source of loud ocean noise.

Gasping is tied to an innate survival mechanism, hardwired into humans through evolution: the fight-or-flight response.

Frogs trying to eat helpless male wasps are in for a nasty surprise.

Celine Dion recently announced that she has been diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome (SPS), a rare and progressive neurological disorder that only affects about one or two out of every 1 million people.

Holiday movies play to our nostalgia bias, a cognitive process that makes us long for past times because we think they were somehow better than now.