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The Kardashev Scale measures the advancement of cosmic societies.

The thinking behind Turing Machines and “universal systems,” is being extended to build a new kind of physics. “Constructor Theory,” is being developed by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto to better explain life. It even suggests why morality arose. 

Genius kids are caught in the Goldilocks oatmeal paradox – if there’s too much heat on extracting their ability they suffer, but keep too cool a distance and they’ll be wasted.

Genetic engineering, utilizing CRISPR, promises to change human lives by bringing an end to disease while irreversibly modifying our gene pool.

The answer is larger than you might think, and applies in some shocking ways! “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way […]

In a world where women are having children later in life, we are faced with new questions in reproductive ethics. Here we ask, “Do children have a right to be loved by grandparents?”

Remember that one time when a Philosopher King ruled the whole world? Well, here is how that turned out. 

A new study shows how interval exercise resulted in two hundred fewer calories consumed in just thirty-five minutes.

Michio Kaku suggests that we lack to evolutionary pressure these days to keep evolving in any significant way.

Though those of the mother have been researched, the father’s biometrics are now getting a closer look.   

The brain seems to be orderly arranged in ever complex and elegant ways, unique to each individual.   

The four fundamental forces have ruled our Universe for over 50 years, now. Are we on the brink of discovering a new one? “The new claim now is [a] boson with […]

A new Italian study shows that women who eat pasta are skinnier. But there’s more to the research than that.

We’re looking back in time when we look across the light years, so what’s different between what we see and what’s really there? “I saw a star explode and send out […]

The U.K. has voted to leave the European Union, but here are the scenarios in which it stays in.

There is software that can track drones in open areas, but none that can do so in tight-knit, urban ones.   

A list debunking commonly believed falsehoods, misconceptions and just bad ideas.

There are strict scientific standards a new ‘claimed discovery’ needs to meet. Has cold fusion gotten there? “Between cold fusion and respectable science there is virtually no communication at all. …because the […]

The smartest humans in history are ranked.

The Big Bang’s leftover glow tells us a lot more than just where we came from. “Cosmology is the study of the origin, evolution, and fate of objects in the observable […]

Samuel Arbesman warns that we’ve entered a new “age of Entanglement” with our complex technology-based systems.

Is virtual reality the future of gaming? They might be, if controllers like this are anything to go by. 

It’s an old idea made new again, but it just might fall apart. “[The black hole] teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal […]

Bill Nye explains the ways in which creationism hurts kids by making scientific inquiry impossible.

Einstein’s first great revolution happened way back in 1905. It still puzzles many amateurs and professionals alike even today. “Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system ‘at rest’ with […]

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is spearheading a national no-kill shelter movement for cats and dogs.

Are life-saving drugs no different than milk or widgets? Should we treat everything on earth as a profit source? That way mechanized madness lies, whereby “your money or your life” is somehow seen as an acceptable business plan.

Marijuana legalization is no longer a libertarian or progressive issue. We need this new, legal industry to replace the depleted economies of the rural South and Midwest.

Mary Roach, author of Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans in War, talks about ear cuffs, a new military-grade technology that will help soldiers preserve their hearing and minimize deafness and hearing disability among veterans.

The reports that our Solar System is missing the galaxy’s most common type of planet are greatly exaggerated. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a […]