The nightmare that jolts you awake at 3 a.m. isn’t a malfunction. It may be one of the oldest survival systems in the human ...

Canadians are once again being asked detailed questions in this year’s census. What is Statistics Canada trying to learn from ...

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may have emerged to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect setting. The following is an excerpt from “Why Do We Exist?: The Nine ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Most of us, if we think about chins at all, do so rarely. But it turns out that chins ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...

Many people question why Muslims do not celebrate Christmas so I thought I would give some insight on Christmas through an Islamic lens, focusing on reflection, faith, and respect after the ...

Jimmy Kimmel has delivered a scathing — and typically comical — attack on president Donald Trump in a special Christmas Day address to the U.K. on Channel 4. For its 2025 annual Alternative Christmas ...

Having just arrived in New Orleans last month, I guess I am the new kid on the block, and I am grateful to be able to share a few words about Christmas and what this celebration means. God’s greatest ...

From “Silent Night” to “Jingle Bells,” Christmas carols are some of the most familiar songs of the season, and some of the oldest. Stephanie Sy explores why most popular music changes with time, but ...

Perhaps some of the worst people to explain the real meaning of Christmas are those who claim to believe in its central message, but have trouble communicating it. Like the secularists, they try to ...