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Einstein’s “happiest thought” led to General Relativity’s formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?

JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.

Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.

The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.

Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.

To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.

Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.

Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!

Evolution proves to be just about as ingenious as Nikola Tesla

Why should it be considered impolite to discuss something so important to our long-term well-being?

In paint form, the world’s “whitest white” reflects so much light that surfaces become cooler than the surrounding air.

New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line. 

Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.

Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.

Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.

Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.

We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.

These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.

A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.

Zombies aren’t a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.

An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.

Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.

It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.

When your passion becomes your day job, sometimes the day job becomes a chore.

Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.

In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.

Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.

Psychologist Noel Brick shares the mental techniques we can use to improve our performance on and off the field.

A team of scientists hopes deep-earth lithium could sustain America’s vast demand for batteries. But extracting it won’t be easy.

A medical entomologist points to metabolism, body odor, and mindset.