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With this unique opportunity to create a totally new world, why does the metaverse already feature such old-world concepts?

Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”

Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?

In terms of sheer productivity, “-gate” has no peer. Wikipedia’s list of -gates has over 260 entries.

There’s a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.

The natural wonders of Mauritius include the spectacular sight of an underwater waterfall. Here’s the science of how it works.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.

The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton’s laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn’t.

The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.

A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the “Out of Africa” dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.

All across the Universe, planets come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, compositions, and temperatures. And most have rain and snow.

Or you might just be a Leo.

The time to begin exploring VR training is now. Here are the pros, cons, and different ways this technology can be utilized. 

The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?

Peer coaching can play a key role in building resilient, high-performing teams, while allowing remote workers to connect with one another from afar. 

Much like computing technology, the Great Red Spot has been getting smaller and faster over the last few years.

We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

U.S. states vary radically in terms of electricity generation. Vermont is the cleanest, while Delaware is the dirtiest.

Scientists have known blobs existed for a long time, but how they have behaved over Earth’s history has been an open question.

In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.

Einstein’s relativity teaches us that time isn’t absolute, but passes relatively for everyone. So how do telescopes see back through time?

Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.

On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.

Socrates lived during a time when people did not strive to separate fact from fiction. So how much of what we know about Socrates is true?

What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.

Coherentism accepts that circular reasoning is probably the best any of us can do.

His family has finally gotten closure after 50 years of uncertainty.

When “superstar” companies start to dominate their industries, consumers sometimes benefit.