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Yes, climate change movies are sad and often lead to quiet desperation, but here’s why we should continue watching and acting.

A UK-Chinese team of scientists have delivered a prototype for a better battery, which could extend the time between smartphone charges – and it’s all inspired by our guts.

Hospitals are starting to get serious about just how noisy they can be for patients trying to heal.

The 20th century held some incredible advances across all the science. But astrophysics’ best days are yet to come. “When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up […]

Joe Camel didn’t want you to know about the secret ingredient to his success. 

During a time of division and fear, the Buddhist path offers insights into surviving and uniting.

If you have dreams of space, here’s your guide… to more than just school! “I’m coming back in… and it’s the saddest moment of my life.” –Ed White, at the end […]

And just what did come before — way before — the Big Bang? “We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our […]

This technique could have applications in pain management and addiction treatment.   

If we left on New Years Day, how close could we get if we kept accelerating every second of every day? “The very closest stars would require many years to visit, […]

Sometimes, designing a careful experiment and measuring absolutely no effect can be the most important result of all. “It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any […]

Apparently, Einstein shared a similar outlook on time as what’s proposed here.  

Cognitive scientist Guy Claxton believes we should think of our entire body as our brain. 

While Kellyanne Conway spoke of a nonexistent massacre, there was a real, historical massacre that took place at Bowling Green – in New York City.

If you were betting on LIGO, you bet wrong. Just like everybody else. “‘Topology is destiny,’ he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.” –Neal Stephenson One […]

Storied skills and a musical analogy might help us update the logic of “virtue ethics.” In life, as in jazz, freedom without skills results in a lot foolish noise. 

It hasn’t happened yet in the entire Universe, not even once. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey […]

Magnetic reconnection this fast shouldn’t be possible, yet we see it everywhere we look. Finally, we know why. “We are inside this plasma,and plasma is inside everything. It is incandescentin the […]

You know what a black hole is, and we’ve found a few so far. But oh, are there ever so many more out there! “Black holes are the seductive dragons of […]

Two strange Oliver Sacks stories about the mind and music from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.

KGB-era “active measures” are still being used by Russian intelligence agencies today, according to experts.

CERN researchers make a major step in understanding antimatter by trapping antihydrogen atoms and controlling them with lasers.

We’re ranked behind Saudi Arabia and Korea in empathy. Surprised?     

Something isn’t right about the Universe without something extra. So why can’t scientists agree on what that “extra” thing is? “All we know so far is what doesn’t work.” –Richard Feynman […]

https://players.brightcove.net/2097119709001/4kXWOFbfYx_default/index.html?videoId=5131037086001 It’s the 10th anniversary of dark matter’s most compelling proof. “It may be that ultimately the search for dark matter will turn out to be the most expensive and […]

A recent study from Yale University find that dogs are better at resisting peer-pressure and filtering useless information than human beings – but there’s value in that human flaw.

Carl Sagan was one of the people who helped shape this recording that might just end up in the hands of some other beings, somewhere out there. 

Theoretical physicists may have arrived at an understanding that makes the pursuit of principles and laws through science meaningless.

Wake up and smell the independence. Thomas Jefferson urged 18th century Americans to think of themselves not as colonial Englishmen, but as a new culture. To that end, he used architecture to serve as a visual reminder of America’s proud new direction.

The same way a forgotten woman astronomer — Annie Jump Cannon — first did over 100 years ago! “Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of […]