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Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don’t truly want to obtain what we think we desire.

High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.

Many workers moved home on the promise or hope that they’d be able to keep working remotely at least some of the time after the pandemic ended.

Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won’t get you an infinite amount of energy. There’s a fundamental limit due to physics.

Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.

You open an app and start scrolling, then suddenly it’s an hour later. Sound familiar?

As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.

The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.

We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.

Step 1: Don’t solve the wrong problem.

Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.

Zuranolone might help people feel better sooner than if they were relying on standard treatment alone.

No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?

Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.

Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.

Soft skills training can help develop transformation-ready employees and equip entire organizations to adapt to an unpredictable future.

Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.

Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.

The key is finding which lifestyle suits you best: hedonic, eudaimonic, or experiential.

From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.

The cost of seeing yourself as a thief is pretty steep, the results of a 2019 study suggest.

Dark matter hasn’t been directly detected, but some form of invisible matter is clearly gravitating. Could the graviton hold the answer?

Thanks to observations of gravitational waves, scientists were able to settle a longstanding debate over the speed of gravity.

At all distances, the Universe expands along our line-of-sight. But we can’t measure side-to-side motions; could it be rotating as well?

Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?

Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn’t instant.

More than two years after JWST began science operations, our Universe now looks very different. Here are its biggest science contributions.

Do we actually live in a deterministic Universe, despite quantum physics? An alternative, non-spooky interpretation has now been ruled out.

Black holes aren’t just the densest masses in the Universe, but they also spin the fastest of all massive objects. Here’s why it must be so.

People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species.” The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.