As private companies race to build orbital habitats and government agencies sketch out Mars timelines, a fundamental ...

Thailand has begun using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try and curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other — an issue in areas where farms ...

Shared meanings create institutions with real power. They also enable us to construct personal narratives that give our lives ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle that appears to be crucial for reproduction.

Artificial intelligence experts have warned that AI "swarms" are poised to infiltrate social media by deploying agents that mimic human behavior and exploit our tendency to follow the herd. When you ...

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules. Los Angeles smog in 1979. For decades, government ...

Tell Me Lies is f-i-n-a-l-l-y back for a third installment, and I, for one, am v happy about it. Based on Carola Lovering’s novel of the same name, the Hulu series follows the twisty, toxic love story ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies ...

Hormonal contraception and permanent surgical sterilization increase life expectancy, a study across 117 mammals suggests. Blocking reproduction increases lifespan in both males and females of many ...