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Albert Einstein created his most famous theory amid personal strife, political tension and a scientific rivalry that almost cost him the glory of his discovery.

We already have the means to skip ahead in time, but going backward is a different wormhole.

Your nightly rest turns out to affect your mind and health more than anyone suspected.

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9-11 Commission, was created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002. This independent, bipartisan commission had the task of producing a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attack, including preparedness and immediate response, and providing recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.

It's the perfect listen for your morning commute! In the time it takes you to get to work, you'll hear a digest of the day's top stories, prepared by the editorial staff of The New York Times. Each edition includes articles from the front page, as well as the paper's international, national, business, sports, and editorial sections.

In my quest to explore the unknown frontier inside my own body, I stumbled upon one of the most intractable problems facing science.

It's the perfect listen for your morning commute! In the time it takes you to get to work, you'll hear a digest of the day's top stories, prepared by the editorial staff of The New York Times. Each edition includes articles from the front page, as well as the paper's international, national, business, sports, and editorial sections.

It's the perfect listen for your morning commute! In the time it takes you to get to work, you'll hear a digest of the day's top stories, prepared by the editorial staff of The New York Times. Each edition includes articles from the front page, as well as the paper's international, national, business, sports, and editorial sections.

Rapidly changing wiring leads to mental agility - and risky behavior.

Technique could ID materials for better solar cells and batteries or more effective medicines.

Neuroscience has demonstrated that meditation has tangible and significant benefits for both body and mind.

"Brain Cells for Grandmother": Sets of cells encode concepts in the brain. "Secrets of Primitive Meteorites": Primitive meteorites are helping to give us a better understanding of what our area of outer space once looked like. "Shattered Ancestry": Fragmented skeletons have upended ideas about the earliest humans. "The Myth of Antioxidants": The growing evidence that has cast doubt on the popular belief that oxidative damage causes aging.

Obese adults who undergo weight-loss surgery are more likely to survive the next decade than those who don’t. A study in the January 6 JAMA finds that, compared with obese people who had no surgery, patients who elected bariatric surgery had mortality rates roughly half as high 5 and 10 years after the operation.

Self-control is not just a puritanical virtue. It is a key psychological trait that breeds success at work and play - and in overcoming life’s hardships.

Many human species have inhabited Earth. But ours is the only one that colonized the entire planet. A new hypothesis explains why.

In 2011, a group of scientists .turned mice gay.. The only issue is, of course, they didn.t.

Rob Dunn, a biologist at North Carolina State University, writes about how digestion is far too messy a process to accurately convey in neat numbers.

The bacteria in our guts may help decide who gets anxiety and depression. "Microbes and the Mind" is from the April 2, 2016 issue of Science News.

First 100 days are critical period for microbe exposure.

Multiple options could make delivering messages impossible, physicists show.