Highly intelligent people often appear socially successful, but psychologically, many report feeling more isolated than their peers.
Building space-based AI. Designing new molecules with quantum computers. Why pink noise is bad for your sleep. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.
This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how scientists view life in the deep.
Your inner composure is only half the equation. Research shows your body may be broadcasting a very different story to everyone in the room via your habits.
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. We’ll be taking a break next week and will back March 20th. Opt in for Optimizer here. On the surface, the wellness to […]
Peak flow doesn’t come from pushing harder. It comes from letting the mind get out of its own way. Here’s the science behind why it works.
Why not checking work email at night and on weekends may actually be good for you and your productivity.
Women’s sleep apnea symptoms differ from men’s and can often be confused with hormonal shifts. Researchers are working to close the detection gap.
Venus and Saturn will appear within about one degree of each other this weekend, making this one of the closest naked-eye planetary pairings of 2026.
The length of the green signal on pedestrian crossings assumes that people can walk at a speed of 1.2 m/s. Scientists find that very few older people can walk that fast.