Jason Daley

It might seem silly to investigate whether people are happier on the weekend, but behind such truisms are revelations about our brains, our behavior and our environment. Here we round...

In April, Kathie Thomas-Keprta told a standing-room-only audience at the Astrobiology Science Conference that she had found evidence of life … Continued

Be grateful, dear reader, that someone else does the hard, dangerous and downright grody work involved in truly audacious science

A map-equipped exercise machine can reenact any hike on Earth

Bold innovation or terrible idea? Your guide to the experiments that only sound scary—and the lab work you truly should lose sleep over

It takes real proof to back up even the simplest theories--these 10 studies show that the obvious can have not-so-obvious implications

Does red wine make you live longer? Do bras cause cancer? Is sugar as addictive as cocaine and heroin? We uncover what headline-grabbing scientific studies really mean for your health

When all else fails, MacGyver It!

Since 2000, the government has tried to help democracy go digital. But is it working?

Despite reams of evidence to the contrary, many still insist those footprints above are a myth