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After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.

Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.

Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.

Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”

Even though no human has stepped foot on the Moon’s surface in 50 years, the evidence of our presence there remains unambiguous.

After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!

By toppling medieval Europe’s mightiest political power, the Protestant Reformation ushered in a new age of freedom, religious and otherwise.

“Immodest Acts” tells the story of Benedetta Carlini, a lesbian nun who claimed to be a mystic visionary but failed to convince the leaders of her faith. 

The poisoned candy legend is just one way that American fears manifested: as an easily understood threat to innocence.

Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.

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

Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.

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.

The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.

Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.

New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called “The Human Element” argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of “Fuel” and “Friction.”

After the German election, will the nation continue to “muddle through” successfully enough to lead Europe?

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

Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?

The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

For some people, the emotional pull of fictional characters is profoundly strong.

What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.

Brands like BMW, Walmart, and IBM are seeing big wins from the use of gamification in corporate training. Here’s how.

Some U.S. intelligence operatives have suggested foreign adversaries may be using “directed-energy” weapons against Americans.

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

For a long time, important events could only be visualized retroactively through paintings. Photography allowed us to capture history as — or sometimes even before — it happened. 

Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.

The Virtual Metaverse will be for gaming and other short duration uses, while the Augmented Metaverse will revolutionize society.

Far from acting as the conduits of a benevolent deity, these religious leaders threw the teachings of their own church out of the window.