
Brian Resnick
Former Science and Health Editor
Latest articles by Brian Resnick


The research isn’t perfect. But it finds spanking doesn’t do much good.


1.4 times the mass of our sun — why “Chandrasekhar’s limit” is essential for understanding why some stars form black holes.

Meditation is meant to help students deal with stress. But the hype is outpacing the evidence.


LIGO kick-started an astronomical treasure hunt that ended with colliding neutron stars and gold.

Nine essential things to know about Puerto Rico’s humanitarian crisis.


Two neutron stars collided 130 million light-years away. Thanks to LIGO, scientists were able to witness it.


Trump: We cannot keep FEMA and the military in Puerto Rico forever. It’s been three weeks.


IQ can predict your risk of death, and 8 other smart facts about intelligence


Yes, there’s another one.


The 2017 Nobel Prize in physics goes to the discovery of these distortions in spacetime.
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