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Just because a distant body has ice doesn’t mean it’ll ever have liquid water.

Three eyes are so much better than two. Here’s why. “Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational […]

Want to be hotter? Add more mass. Want to go even hotter than that? Lose almost all of it. “A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into […]

Drop a chunk of sodium metal into water, and a violent reaction ensues. But it’s more than just chemistry at play. “Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields […]

Astronomers make the first direct observation of a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Facebook catches two AI chatbots talking in their own strange language.

It turns out Winston Churchill wrote an essay of predictions titled ‘Fifty Years Hence’—and while he was off on the timing, some are finally coming true.

“These facts have been presented time and again, year after year, for decades,” DiCaprio says. “Quite simply, we are knowingly doing this to ourselves.”

Not everyone sees color the way you do. There are a suite of tools available to help graphic designers work more inclusively. 

John Cleese was in super sarcastic form during his recent Reddit AMA.

New research brings nuance to the concept of being nice by illuminating the personality traits that underlie it, dividing the quality into two related but distinct components.

The world’s largest oil and gas company may be its own worst enemy.   

This is the 1st study to show evidence of a relationship between methylation drift and lifespan.

Researchers develop a working, battery-free cellphone.

It’s tempting to add the spins of the quarks together, but that’s not what the experiments agree with! “We must regard it rather as an accident that the Earth (and presumably […]

The first stars formed almost half a billion years before we could see their light. Here’s why. At the moment of the Big Bang, the Universe was full of matter and […]

Instead of nearly-circular ellipses, comets are extraordinarily elongated, or even on an exit path. Why so different? When you look at how the planets orbit in our Solar System, the […]

For just a year’s worth of US Military budget, we could transform the world. The United States spends more on military spending than the next ten nations combined: an estimated $600 […]

Can robots tell stories? In a way, yes. We’re far more likely to see robot nursery rhymes than a robot Shakespeare. 

It’s durable, exponentially scalable, and it’ll last millennia, if not millions of years.  

If all we had were hydrogen and helium after the Universe were born, we wouldn’t be here today. “The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical […]

Dark matter, dark energy, and why there’s more matter than antimatter? There’s an experiment to explore if neutrinos could solve all three. When you take a look at the Universe in […]

Scientists are starting to run for office to bring evidence-based reasoning back to government.

Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell explains why we shouldn’t be afraid of alien visitors.

Illinois passed a bill that could abolish AT&T’s obligation to provide the state’s citizens with landline telephone services.

A piece of legislation to address the problem is getting widespread support. Yet, it’s stalled.   

With a journey of 130 million light years, both signals should move at the speed of light. So why did one get here first? On August 17, after a journey taking […]

Molecular biologists are hopeful about the results, but a long road lies ahead—so far this diet has only worked proven wonders on mice.

The pharmaceutical industry excels at exploiting the free market by making recovery often inaccessible. 

What happens up there directly affects life down here. From star-gazing to quantum mechanics, astronomy is one of humanity’s great thruster engines of innovation.