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The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.

It’s about 7.6 million times faster than what you probably have at home.

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

Online learning has become the new normal, but it isn’t without its challenges.

Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.

Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.

There are pros and cons to sending interstellar messages to aliens that may or may not exist.

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

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

As a form of civil disobedience, hacking can help make the world a better place.

Medical science can save lives, but should it do so at the cost of quality of life?

Embedded in a cell phone or in accessories such as rings, bracelets or watches, the novel tools aim to make it easier to manage hypertension. But they must still pass several tests before hitting the clinic.

Small spiders use their silk threads to passively fly, a process called ballooning. Learning how could help atmospheric scientists.

A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.

The Metaverse could be the most dangerous tool of persuasion humanity has ever created.

Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk

That question is at the heart of the new documentary, “Medicating Normal.”

Your very own “Conspiracy Detection Kit.”

The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?

As always, aDNA research raises as many questions as answers.

The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.

Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?

A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.

The opening of jars, while impressive and often used to illustrate octopus intelligence, is not their most remarkable ability.

A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.

When you hold yourself financially accountable, you’re likely to gain more than just some extra money.

The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?

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