If you’ve ever woken up from a strange, vivid dream and thought what was that about? Good news. Science is finally catching ...

Your dreams and sleep quality are linked. Here's what vivid dreams, recurring nightmares and REM cycles are already telling ...

Much to his chagrin, Diamond has recently gone viral for rescuing some flamingos and has been hired by Sharon Cobbs (Vicky ...

All the single people can say to bridge the gap are the “kwa kina ndoa” stories when some drama spills into the public space.

Shift workers like emergency physicians need to nap before a night shift; however, many of us think napping is otherwise for ...

The nightmare that jolts you awake at 3 a.m. isn’t a malfunction. It may be one of the oldest survival systems in the human ...

You are outside on a clear evening. As you gaze out across the dewy grass, you notice dozens of snakes in the distance, a massive tangle of pythons inexplicably colored neon pink, orange, and green.

Dreams are more structured than they seem, shaped by both personal traits and real-world experiences. Researchers found that the brain doesn’t just replay daily life—it reshapes it into imaginative, ...

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may have emerged to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect setting. The following is an excerpt from “Why Do We Exist?: The Nine ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Most of us, if we think about chins at all, do so rarely. But it turns out that chins ...

“I write essentially about the Arctic and its people, Inuit–the semi-nomads who were made to settle down, for better or worse,” the late Inuk artist, author, activist and more Alootook Ipellie tells ...