Science

In postwar America, as suburbs spread and federal social welfare programs expanded, one underexamined building type quietly became a fixture of the American health care landscape: the nursing home.

Scientists have uncovered a toxic alliance between Aβ and fibrinogen that may explain how Alzheimer’s disease begins. The two proteins together create stubborn clots that damage blood vessels and spark inflammation in the brain. These effects appear even at very…

The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the data visualization, according to a pair of studies by MIT researchers.

New satellite imagery from the European Space Agency reveals nearly four decades of dramatic ice loss for two of Patagonia’s largest glaciers.

Why do some people regularly attend the opera, visit art galleries, or go to classical music concerts—while others rarely, if ever, do?

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet’s equator, a new study finds.

New research published in International Studies of Economics sheds light on an important but often overlooked driver of racial segregation in housing: minimum lot size zoning policies, or local regulations requiring a minimum amount of land for a property.

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples in water, shifts stars up and…

Common dolphins in the North Atlantic are living significantly shorter lives, with female longevity dropping seven years since the 1990s. Researchers found this decline by analyzing stranded dolphins, revealing a 2.4% drop in population growth linked to bycatch deaths and…

SpaceX will launch its record-breaking 133rd Falcon 9 mission of 2025 today (Oct. 22), and you can watch the action live.