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In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?

While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.

Unlock the paradoxes of life through poetic realism.

Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.

After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.

It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.

Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.

From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.

We are generally taught that there is an arc of history — an inevitable path of progress that leads to modern society. Maybe it isn’t true.

“Groupthink” gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.

The anthropic principle has fascinating scientific uses, where the simple fact of our existence holds deep physical lessons. Don’t abuse it!

Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?

Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.

Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we’re going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.

Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.

There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.

In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.

With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.

The farther away they get, the smaller distant galaxies look. But only up to a point, and beyond that, they appear larger again. Here’s how.

Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.

As the stream of AI-generated art turns into a deluge, NFTs could become a cornerstone of the Virtual Renaissance.

It is a story with nebulous beginnings and no discernible end.

Carl Jung was one such person.

Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?

Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.

Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.

The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?

“The digital HQ – the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration – actually became more important than the physical HQ.”