For many Christians, Adam and Eve represent the first human couple and ancestors of everyone alive today. Evolutionary science, meanwhile, points toward modern humans emerging gradually from populations containing thousands of individuals…
Light May Trick Your Body Into Feeling Hotter or Colder — Here’s What a New Study Found
Invisible shifts in ordinary white indoor lighting can alter how warm or cold a room feels by up to 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit without changing the thermostat. Office thermostat wars are a daily…
Yale Researchers Reveal Why Stress Makes Certain Memories Harder to Forget
Stress is often blamed for making people forget things, but Yale University researchers have discovered that its effects on memory are more complicated. In an experiment involving 27 participants, scientists found that…
GLP-1 Drugs Linked to Fewer Heart Complications and Infections After Surgery, New Study Finds
Anesthesiologists have been wary of GLP-1 medications for several years, largely because of what the drugs do to the stomach. They slow stomach emptying, raising concerns about what might happen during anesthesia….
What’s in Breast Milk? New Study Reveals 7 Clues About Baby Growth
Breast milk has always carried a certain mystique. Mothers are told it adapts to their baby’s needs, is alive with immune protection, and is basically liquid gold. But despite the reverence, science…
Can a Blood Test Help Detect Breast Cancer Earlier? A New Clinical Trial Has The Answer
Ask how breast cancer gets caught early, and the answer usually starts with a mammogram. Researchers at USC want to know whether a blood sample could hand doctors another clue, possibly as…
Which planet could humans survive on first? Scientists have a few leading candidates
If humans ever establish a permanent home beyond Earth, the first planet is unlikely to look anything like the lush new worlds imagined in science fiction. Every planet we know well enough…
6,000 years or 4.5 billion years: Could both estimates of Earth’s age be wrong?
Two dramatically different numbers dominate arguments about Earth’s age. Young-Earth creationists often place creation roughly 6,000 years ago, while modern geology estimates Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago. But neither figure…
Are UFOs a figment of people’s imagination? The answer is not so simple
For decades, UFO sightings were often dismissed as imagination, exaggeration or mistaken identity. Psychology does show that human perception can turn distant lights, aircraft and unusual atmospheric effects into something far stranger,…
What would happen if scientists confirmed alien life tomorrow? Here are possible reactions
If scientists announced tomorrow that alien life had been confirmed, the reaction would depend heavily on what exactly had been found. A fossilized microbe on Mars would trigger excitement and scientific upheaval,…