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Why loneliness and not social isolation may be making you sick

One in six people are thought to experience loneliness, and that can have a serious knock-on effect on their mental and physical health

Hank Green AI controversy raises questions for science communicators

The backlash raises a bigger question for science communicators: where should AI fit into their work?

Monkeys keep pets and maintain friendships with other animals

This behaviour may shed light on one of the defining features of our own species: our extraordinary relationships with other animals

How spaceflight changes astronauts' ability to eat and drink

If humans are to spend more time in space, scientists need to understand how life in microgravity affects eating and drinking

Europe's wildfires are igniting forgotten WWII and Cold War bombs

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and the continent's wildfires are now big enough, hot enough and last long enough to reach them

James R. Urbaniak, Master of Stitching Back Fingers, Dies at 90

JERÉ LONGMAN

He was among the first to perform microscopic surgery in the 1970s and revolutionized techniques to treat traumatic injuries.