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It’s all about having mature ideas about how romantic relationships work.

Fundamental physics must reconsider its current path and value system.

A neuroscientist argues that da Vinci shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt.

Three scientists have produced a map of the world which accurately reflects the size of all the continents. They’re calling the Equal Earth Projection.

The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.

Is coolness wearing a leather jacket and slicking your hair back? Or is it “a measured rebellion” within established boundaries? One big thinker tells us that being “cool” is sort of like a cult, at least from a sociological standpoint.

Nietzsche, physics, and the seduction of an idea.

A mining company in Australia has unearthed what could be some of the largest gold specimens ever discovered.

When we call something ugly, we say something about ourselves – and what we fear or dread.

It’s no surprise our level of empathy impacts how we process social interactions with other people. But how might empathy affect the way we process music? That’s the question addressed […]

There are two classes of so-called “big questions.” The former are invented, and the latter can be fully answered by science.

What would it cost to move some of the world’s most famous landmarks to new locations?

Ingvar Kamprad may be the most influential aesthete in the history of interior design, thanks to the mass-produced and self-assembled furniture created by his company, Ikea.

A quarter-million years of evolution can’t be wrong.

Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty” science.

Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world’s roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones.

You can name a dozen rock stars on drugs, but can you name the philosophers who partook? We’re here to help.

Many of our greatest fears stem from uncertainty about the future, and technology has made the future very uncertain indeed.

It can be hard to understand why a person would be an atheist. Bertrand Russell is here to help.

Ready Player One’s spectacular VR OASIS experience has us wondering how achievable it really is and when we’ll start seeing immersive VR movies.

If spacetime is like a fabric, and mass bends it, what flattens it back out again? Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That’s […]

This conceptual framework is the most advanced representation of human emotions to date.   

It’s that time again. Are you ready to throw down the wit-gauntlet and put those potently chucklesome or chin-strokingly insightful words to fingertips? 

An eye-catching ‘scaly-dragon’ map of Berlin’s public transport system in 1927

Can computers be creative? Depends on whether you’re asking it to write music or write a novel.

A philosopher explores these virtues.

The Germans have a lovely saying for the benefits of keeping an idle mind: ‘die Seele baumeln lassen’, meaning ‘let the soul dangle’.    

A new study investigates if pot smokers outperformed nonsmokers in creativity.

Among the general public, people compare it to the aether, phlogiston, or epicycles. Yet almost all astronomers are certain: dark matter and dark energy exist. Here’s why. If you go by […]

Is there a certain spiritual component to hope, supported by a belief in a God that can make goals and dreams come true? Or can an atheist be just as hopeful as a religious person?