Julia Child has an easy way to elevate a jelly roll cake to make it appeal to adults everywhere, and there are plenty of ...

Vedantam, a veteran science reporter, joins WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn to explore how unseen mental forces shape our choices, and why the show continues to resonate with listeners.

The world as we know it is now in a state of complex flux. And our current conceptual framework for understanding the breakneck speed at which things are moving is to say we now live in a ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

The never-ending cycle of cleaning can feel like a losing battle. As soon as you tackle one mess, another appears, leaving ...

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

A little-known desert berry may hold the key to fighting diabetes. Scientists may have uncovered a surprising new weapon in the fight against diabetes: the fruit of an ancient desert plant. Known as ...

Imagine flying high above the sun-drenched plains of southern Peru where the land is a canvas for ancient puzzles or riddles. Carved into the desert floor are massive drawings of, among other things, ...

It’s that time of year again: the angels are getting their wings for the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, premiering on October 15. And it wouldn’t be a Victoria’s Secret Fashion show without the ...

Although it well known that the human gut contains a large and diverse array of bacteriophages, a functional understanding of the phage–host interactions is limited. This is, in part, due to a lack of ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...