Taylor Swift’s ‘Patient Zero’ inverts the term’s meaning — and her video goes further. The real history: a misread letter, a scapegoat, a posthumous vindication.
The people hardest to manipulate aren’t cynics. A psychologist explains 3 habits of healthy distrust that help you resist pressure, guilt and flattery.
Do redheads really need more anesthesia? A biologist explains how the MC1R gene behind red hair may affect pain, and what the research does and doesn’t show.
Rocket Lab’s out-of-the-blue protest against NASA’s commissioning Blue Origin to develop the Mars Telecommunications Network could torpedo the 2028 launch of the orbiter.
Ancient DNA from Bronze Age sheep teeth and medieval manuscripts, including the York Gospels, traces 3,700 years of sheeppox as the virus returns to Europe.
“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.
NASA will pay Boeing $359m to help get its Starliner spacecraft flying again. It will also buy two more Starliner flights to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing announced the plan at a news conference on Monday, and NASA set it out in a st…
Courses at the University of San Francisco and elsewhere go beyond the particulars of how to use artificial intelligence to explore what it means for human thought.
Scientists have found a new form of pollution, one where plastic and pieces of coral become irreversibly intertwined.
NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg will command Boeing Starliner’s return to crewed flight in 2028 as NASA prepares for a future beyond SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.