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Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.

Even a small merger can trigger so much more than we realize. Practically every galaxy in the Universe has a supermassive black hole at their core. Ranging from millions to many […]

The Universe’s history, from cosmic inflation to the Big Bang to the present, is known. But whether it’s infinite or not is still a mystery.

Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.

The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here’s how.

From forming bound states to normal scattering, many possibilities abound for matter-antimatter interactions. So why do they annihilate?

We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.

This article was originally published on our sister site, Freethink. Fifteen volunteers in France just spent more than a month living in a cave — without any way to tell time — […]

Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here’s why it remains fascinating.

Long before tobacco arrived from the Americas, ancient civilizations in the Old World were getting high off hemp smoke and opium. 

The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.

Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.

On New Year’s Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?

Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.

The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.

Why, exactly, should you die for your child?

Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.

Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.

It could evolve, strengthen, decay, or not be alone. Our known Universe contains matter, radiation, and dark energy. While matter (both normal and dark) and radiation become less dense as […]

Going door-to-door on All Hallows Eve to beg for ‘soul cakes’?

In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, there were only free protons and neutrons: no atomic nuclei. How did the first elements form from them?

“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”

In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.

Altos Labs, a new biotech firm with $3 billion in funding, has announced plans to combat aging. But what does that mean for human life span, exactly?

Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?

Scientists created the mineral lonsdaleite in a lab and tested its strength using sound waves — before it was obliterated.

As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.

From boosting empathy to improving therapy, virtual reality is poised to change our ideas of the self.

But does Amazon know when you’re tired or hungry?