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There’s no such thing as a miracle drug.

The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you’re doing and watch the original.

Anxiety can be good or bad. It turns out that it’s really up to you.

In one of the ocean’s most lifeless places, scientists discover and resuscitate ancient organisms.

We have two ways of measuring the expansion rate. Here’s the harder one. If you want to understand where our Universe came from and where it’s going, you need to measure […]

Named M51-ULS-1b, it’s certainly a curious astronomical event. But the evidence is far too weak to conclude “planet.”

Yukio Mishima treated his life as if it were a story — one with a surprising and deadly final act.

Is there any good reason for assigning North and South the way we do, or could we have just as easily done the reverse?

If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]

Researchers discover black holes that violate the uniqueness theorem and have “gravitational hair.”

“Such studies will lead to a better understanding of brain development in both autistic and typical individuals.”

After decades of development, whether NASA’s Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.

Think you can solve it? One mathematician has already offered about $1,000 and a bottle of champagne to whoever cracks it first.

Underperforming, the U.S. comes in only 157th out of 196 in global triangularity ranking.

Deniers will never stop misleading others. Here’s the truth. Every so often, advocates of a fringe theory — one that doesn’t fit the evidence as well as the mainstream theory — do what they can […]

For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.

Spirals, ellipticals, and irregulars are all more common than ring galaxies. At last, we know how these ultra-rare objects are made.

Scientists discover burrows of giant predator worms that lived on the seafloor 20 million years ago.

Never made a turkey before? Don’t worry, science can help.

Researchers were even able store and read a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file in the fabric.

We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.

One of the best-known allegorical depictions of love has a rather pessimistic male twin.

Scientists regenerate damaged spinal cord nerve fibers with designer protein, helping paralyzed mice walk again.

His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.

Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.

How close are we to human teleportation? Successes in quantum teleportation experiments abound.

The system is basically facial recognition technology, but for cars.

Sound waves behave quite differently on Mars than on Earth.

How does philosophy try to balance having free will with living in a deterministic universe?

A theoretical physicist returns to Penrose and Hameroff’s theory of “quantum consciousness.”