Inger Andersen, UNEP’s Executive Director, urges stronger science‑based multilateralism, solidarity and funding to safeguard the environment as the foundation of security.

For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...

Movies like Oldboy and Misery are harrowing experiences that force their characters (and us) to endure intense and scarring psychological torture.

A third of American teens use AI agents as friends or romantic partners. What will be the long-term consequences?

Beyond the immediate effects of exposure, there is also evidence that nature may shape the brain over longer timescales. Structural MRI studies suggest that living in greener areas is associated with ...

Journalists need to understand the difference between a contradiction and a paradox in order to clarify issues and provide ...

Modern life keeps us indoors, but the brain evolved outside. Even brief time in sunlight and nature can restore attention, ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

Most ecologists once believed that healthy ecosystems are naturally stable, with a low turnover of species. Left to themselves, they reach a perfected equilibrium that the influential 19th-century ...

New technology enables us to perceive sounds beyond human hearing range, allowing a new perspective on our place on the planet.

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...

The era of autonomous warfare will not announce itself with robotic armies marching across battlefields. Instead, it is already emerging, quietly and inexorably, in the skies and fields of eastern ...