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The same parts of the brain that help us navigate complex social interactions can also drive us to make wildly bad investments.

To war is human – and Neanderthals were very like us.

Mexico City, already progressive, takes more steps to protect its LGBT+ citizens.

Radical thinker Rutger Bregman paints a new, more beautiful portrait of humanity.

And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]

Don’t miss the summer’s greatest natural sights of all. Some of the natural highlights of our night sky are easy to overlook. Every year, you’ll hear about some of the brightest, […]

The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.

Philosophy professor James Sterba revives a very old argument.

These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.

Study looks at who/what they prefer learning from

Think America would never elect a socialist? Think again.

Transport yourself to other worlds and states of mind.

With an assist from Einstein’s gravity and the power of the Hubble Space Telescope, it’s the brightest quasar we’ve ever discovered. In astronomy, there are two types of questions to […]

At the dawn of the AI era, where decisions made now could affect the future of mankind, regulation over tech giants is needed now more than ever.

Never draw a conclusion, no matter how ‘obvious,’ without doing the experiment first. We all love our most cherished ideas about how the world and the Universe works. Our conception […]

The ancients had a cornucopia of holidays and festivities.

When it comes to the Solar System, all we have left are the survivors. At last, that might be enough to know what happened 4.5 billion years ago. We know what […]

Even before we have the James Webb Space Telescope, a controversy over when the first stars formed is growing. As far back as our most powerful telescopes have ever looked, we’ve […]

El Castillo, a pyramid in Mexico, was built in such a way that the “snake of sunlight” would slither down its steps at the dawning of each equinox, as the sun rose into the sky.

New research in psychedelics is showing them to be a powerful antidote to depression. We need to implement them into therapy.

Valentine’s Day celebrations occur all around the world in different ways that reflect local ideas about love.

Some people like going to bed early in the evening and waking up at the crack of dawn. Others are most alive after the Sun has set, preferring the darkness […]

A groundbreaking study from a Harvard University team suggests that monogamy may be genetically programmed within some mammals.

Could life on Earth have spawned more than once?   

A live-blog event of an incredible public lecture by a scientist on the inside of James Webb’s team. “The [James Webb] telescope is basically designed to answer the big questions in […]

Those white spots are still salt, but there’s so much more there! “Although impact processes dominate the surface geology on Ceres, we have identified specific color variations on the surface […]

Before NASA’s Dawn spacecraft found white weirdness on Ceres, it had a close encounter with the second largest asteroid: Vesta. “I have announced this star as a comet, but since […]

How we went from our Milky Way, alone, to the entire Universe. “Gamow was fantastic in his ideas. He was right, he was wrong. More often wrong than right. Always […]

Nuclear weapons do horrific widespread damage. Nuclear radiation, even at high doses, does not. But fear of radiation does. We have the survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to thank for these lessons. We should honor their suffering by remembering both.

“Daddy, why do all the players have dark skin?” When my eldest daughter posed this question one football Saturday six years ago, she had no concept of race in mind […]