The Big Ideas: What Drives Us? Evolution has fine-tuned us for success, yet we often choose self-destruction. Credit...Chloe Cushman Supported by By Meghan O’Gieblyn Meghan O’Gieblyn is a writer and ...

Inside the enduring appeal of machines that look, move, and increasingly think like humans. Twenty-first-century humanoids, like this one built in a German lab, have evolved from demonstrating ...

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may have emerged to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect setting. The following is an excerpt from “Why Do We Exist?: The Nine ...

It’s ancient, unstoppable and strangely contagious. Here’s what science now knows about the humble yawn, and why evolution never got rid of it. You’re reading this sentence, and there’s a reasonable ...

Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models. In fall 2024, the best-selling author and historian ...

Scientists have long tried to decode every dream we have. Some say it’s survival training, others say it’s memory at work, but the truth is far less certain. Most of us brush up against one of biology ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Most of us, if we think about chins at all, do so rarely. But it turns out that chins ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Setting the time on a watch. (Getty Images) Daylight saving time begins tonight. At 2 a.m. local time Sunday, clocks across most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People say it every day without thinking ― "two o'clock," "six o'clock," "eight o'clock sharp." But what is the purpose of that ...

People say it every day without thinking ― "two o'clock," "six o'clock," "eight o'clock sharp." But what is the purpose of that little "o" and apostrophe? Is it short for something? Why do we only use ...

For me, the best part of growing up in a large Irish Catholic family was the gatherings on St. Patrick’s Day. Corned beef, cabbage, and soda bread were reserved for every March 17, as were embellished ...