Astronomy’s enduring quest is to go farther, fainter, and more detailed than ever before. Here’s the edge of the cosmic frontier. Astronomers have always sought to push back the viewable […]
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Twain and Tesla had similar passions and an amusing friendship.
Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, called for a mass psychedelic act of civil disobedience in protest of drug criminalization.
The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
The motivations behind this complex feeling.
Maya Angelou will be commemorated in a new permanent art installation in San Francisco. Poet and novelist, Angelou had a storied relationship with the city. She attended the George Washington […]
If you’re careful enough, you can learn more about the Solar System than you ever imagined. This year, on March 20th, the full Moon will illuminate the night sky. With […]
Techno-fixes will not get us where we need to be to stop the effects of climate change.
Wanna lose weight? How does eating only pineapple and lamb chops sound? Maybe receiving all your sustenance through a feeding tube instead?
FDA guidelines say men can’t donate blood if they’ve had sex with another man in the past 12 months.
Small sample size? No underlying theory? Conflicts with all other results? It checks all the boxes. There’s nothing that’s special, on a cosmic scale, about our place in the Universe. Not […]
General Relativity has nothing to do with light or electromagnetism at all. So how to gravitational waves know to travel at the speed of light? There are two fundamental classes of […]
Big data is here to save your dinner.
Doctors may be able to painlessly reshape cartilage with the technique.
The downsides of drug abuse are so clear that one would imagine smarter folks would stay away from them. The research suggests otherwise.
It’s found everywhere we know how to look, and just might be nature’s perfect fuel. Here’s how to harness it. Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in all of […]
It’s been spectacularly confirmed by observation, but theoretically, it couldn’t have been any other way. If the Sun were to spontaneously cease emitting light, we wouldn’t know about it for about […]
And one of our planets has the orbiting moons to prove it. Despite the dangers posed to planet Earth by a comet or asteroid strike, our Solar System is actually an […]
“There is a kind of whispering campaign — more than a whispering campaign, sometimes a yelling campaign — against the value of objective truth.” So says biologist and author Richard […]
If this newfound galaxy is just the tip of the iceberg, the entire Universe may fall into place. One of the greatest challenges for a scientist is that every time you […]
A new study finds that societies use the same acoustic features for the same types of songs, suggesting universal cognitive mechanisms underpinning world music.
It is rare for them to form, nonetheless reach this size.
Ideas are plentiful; execution is another story.
Charity and volunteering not only benefit the recipient but help you become happier and healthier in the new year.
A recent Colorado study of ER visits is alarming medical professionals.
And other questions people brought to an “Ask the Philosopher” booth in New York City.
It’s not a question of could they, but have they? Here’s how we’ll find out. It’s no secret that fragments of asteroids, comets, and other spaceborne objects have been found here […]
After his breakout performance as Breaking Bad’s Walter White — and after playing dad Hal in Malcolm in the Middle — it might seem that Bryan Cranston’s always been as […]