Science

What false memories are teaching us about how remembering works

Proxima b is the nearest exoplanet to Earth, and it lies within its star’s habitable zone. That means it could—maybe—host life.

And other things we learned from speaking to an American alligator expert

The quest to understand the human genome, the instructions that rule our form, our function and, more than we would wish, our fate

Mistakes happen to everyone—even science’s top minds. Watch Perimeter Institute’s last lecture of the season, live today at 7 p.m. ET

The peculiarities that appear to make the human brain idiotic, says neuroscientist Dean Burnett, are part of what makes us function

Where the wild things are: What happens to animals when they’re caught in a forest blaze

How do fires jump over bodies of water? Is there any ecological upside to the devastation? Fire behaviour expert Tim Lynham answers all questions

Experts say forest fires are more frequent, and more intense, due to climate change

Watch award-winning physicist Tim Palmer deliver a lecture on how supercomputing can forecast climate change on May 4 at 7pm ET