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Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?

“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.

From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.

The underground burial tombs were used at least as far back as 2500 B.C.

Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.

Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?

The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.

The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?

“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.

For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?

JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it’s 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.

From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?

People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?

The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle. 

Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.

Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.

Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.

The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.

We should not romanticize ancient Egyptian culture.

Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.

Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.

This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.

Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.

The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.

In a world without “bullshit jobs,” we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.

If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.

Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.

From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.