Art should provoke something: reflection, discomfort, curiosity, or even anger. That reaction is part of the work. When I was ...

War on Science takes aim at science’s global culture wars. Edited by controversial physicist Lawrence Krauss, it argues evidence-based science is under threat.

In 1971, Chris Burden staged one of the most infamous performance artworks of the 20th century. In a gallery space, he instructed a marksman to shoot him in the left arm with a .22-calibre rifle. The ...

Curiosity-driven experiments in a basement eventually sparked a worldwide rethink of how stress, addiction, and life experiences shape the brain.

On average, people with a healthy weight carried several more favorably ranked species than people struggling with obesity ...

Why it matters: It's reportedly still one of the best-selling songs of all time in any genre, though chart data from decades ...

Rage bait' was chosen following an extensive public vote, winning out over two other strong contenders: 'aura farming' and 'biohack' ...

As summer heats up in Australia and more people go swimming, concerns about sharks inevitably rise. But what is the real ...

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media platform X, has once again found himself at the centre of a ...

A team of EPFL scientists tested the reproducibility of five decades of research on fly immunity. Most of those research results proved to be valid ...

A new study suggests that the brain uses distinct neural pathways to process different aspects of personal well-being. The ...

The hunt for the holy grail of a longer life has consumed the careers of the brightest scientists and dented the fortunes of ...