After completing your single task (and taking a break to acknowledge your progress), you move to the next concrete action.

Researchers studying the human brain shared a lot of fascinating research this year, like how to keep brains young and how to ...

Then researchers placed blastoids and embryos donated after infertility treatments inside the little device and watched it ...

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025 ...

It's not too late to turn the page on old habits and start reading again in 2026. People often stop reading in adulthood ...

Nuno Loureiro, 47, was killed by an old classmate who was on the run from a shooting at Brown University, the authorities ...

Over the past year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big ...

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Emory is the data editor at STAT. He’s a data journalist with a ...

Teacher Kristin Robinson goes over a math problem with her students at Cedar Rapids Prep in Cedar Rapids on Oct. 20. The charter school opened this year and has 255 students in grades six through ...