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Chinese scientists accomplish the feat of teleporting a photon to a satellite hundreds of miles above Earth.

Will Smith defends entry of non-theatrical Netflix movies at Cannes.

A new study shows that adult dogs can learn to distinguish generous and selfish people, but puppies can’t.

Which is worse? Alcohol or marijuana?

For our future’s sake, let’s demand government funding for ‘little science’, says Hertz fellow Avideh Zakhor.

From an evolutionary perspective, religious practices and rituals are a form of play.

When novelists and poets reveal their writing process we learn a great deal about our own development. 

A new report highlights the increasing violence faced by environmental activists around the world.

New research shows that bilinguals learn more efficiently and multitask better as well.

The title sequence to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is memorable for its minimalistic, sleek design. But what do those graphics actually say?

We may use superlatives all the time, but that’s no substitute for quantifying just how bad, big, or important something is. This article was written by Kimberly Arcand and Megan […]

ORBITER was in the path of totality for the solar eclipse, and on our way, we were joking about which of us might scream. Turns out, how could you not?

Would you rather learn philosophy from James Franco or a professor of philosophy? Well, now you don’t have to choose.

The smartphone is set to become the hub of your life, online and off, until this replaces it. 

This could revolutionize organ transplants, grafts, prostheses, and implants.

As wonderful as the evidence that supports or invalidates a theory is, it can never truly kill the ones that don’t work out. When it comes to science, we like to […]

So you think you’re “not a math person”? International Mathematical Olympiad coach Po-Shen Loh strongly disagrees.

Gravitational waves and electromagnetic ones don’t need to go together. But physics says it’s possible; what do the observations say? “The black holes collide in complete darkness. None of the […]

1.5 million children die each year from preventable diseases arising from poor sanitation systems. That’s why some of the world’s top scientists are working to make a 21st-century toilet without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and which costs users under $0.05 a day.

Exterior mapping – like GPS maps – is part of daily life, but in the coming decades prepare to have your private, interior spaces mapped to assist with future technologies.

When you’re confronted by some new information, how do you tell whether it’s valid or not? “I’m old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn’t […]

The event horizon is real, and we know it without even needing to see it directly. “Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.” –Sam Neill, Event Horizon If […]

If nature makes equal amounts of matter and antimatter, how are we here? When you look out at the vastness of the Universe, at the planets, stars, galaxies, and all there […]

Many businesses could benefit from applying the principles of design thinking to their work. However, too many businesses focus on the wrong things when they use design thinking, which can […]

How looking at a single, distant galaxy cluster can show us the invisible mass filling our space like nothing else. “We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and […]

Emotions are the language of the unconscious, and in day-to-day life, they prevent us from sinking beneath an overwhelming flood of information. 

Denying the possibility of immoral actions may be the very basis of our society.

The ‘Project Wing’ drone system is going to change life as we know it—and inadvertently fix all your storage problems. rn

Is logic an immutable, unchangeable set of rules? Or has it it evolved with time – and will it continue to do so?

Hitler is commonly thought to have been an atheist, a claim that’s often used in debates about the perils of atheistic belief on a mass scale. But was he?