Science News Explores

PHOENIX, Ariz. — Nervous? One day soon, relief might be just a chew away.

For years, research has been showing that chemicals found in passionflower plants can help fight anxiety. Two teens have now created a c...

Objective: Find out whether people can tell the difference between real pictures and AI-generated images.

Areas of science: Artificial intelligence, human behavior

Difficulty: Medium intermediate

Time required: Short (2–5 days)

Prerequisites: None

...

DENVER, Colo. — Tiny, exploding black holes might solve a major mystery about how the universe as we know it came to be.

In the cosmos today, matter is much more common than antimatter. But scientists don’t know why. Matter makes u...

Of all the strange and spectacular things in outer space, nothing is stranger or more spectacular than black holes.

These cosmic oddballs can’t even be described without contradiction. Unlike a typical hole, for instance, a black hole is not empty. ...

The mind can regulate the immune system. And through directed thinking, people can learn to turn on immune-boosting brain areas, a new study finds.

The idea that the brain can influence the body emerged long ago, says Tor Wager. He’s a neuroscientist at Dartmouth University in Hanover, N.H. But only in the last few years have there been “real breakthroughs in unders...