The Parker Solar Probe is the first time a spacecraft will ever get this close to the sun.
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Plant cognitive ecologist Monica Gagliano talks about the challenges facing serious scientific research into plant intelligence.
New York City passed legislation that caps new licenses for drivers with companies like Uber and Lyft in an effort to stop the erosion of the taxi industry and to study the effects the ride-sharing industry has on the city’s economy and traffic congestion.
The vast emptiness of space isn’t really so empty: It’s filled with space goop made of greasy carbon molecules.
“We don’t have to worry about some evil dictator A.I. because we are the A.I. collectively. That seems like the best outcome I can think of,” says Elon Musk.
When most people think about improving workplace health, they think of green cleaning methods or washing their hands before eating. However, another aspect of health and wellness in the workplace […]
Three great things all align this August, making the Perseids a can’t-miss show. Here’s how to take advantage. When it comes to meteor showers, we have these dazzling pictures in […]
America’s corn syrup fields are big enough to cover all its airports and railroads, and other surprising lessons from a ‘tidied-up’ map of America’s land use zones
Global warming, the MMR vaccine, UFOs, and more are in the spotlight so far. But will it work?
In his new book, Nick Chater writes that what we see is what we get.
With the tegu’s successful occupation of Florida’s ecosystems, a new study predicts that this invasive species could potentially spread across the southern U.S. and into Mexico. But these voracious lizards are just another incident in our devastating history of invasive species.
While the gender gap is narrowing, women still do seven hours more housework per week than men (and that doesn’t include the child-caring).
China has for years been using robotic doves—drones that look and fly like real birds—to surveil the skies over its provinces, marking one of the most peculiar parts of the nation’s widespread civilian surveillance program.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk shocked the markets on Tuesday with a series of tweets outlining the mercurial entrepreneur’s desire to take the company private.
How worried should we be about bacteria with an alcohol tolerance? Be afraid, be very afraid.
Ken Segall, the former creative director of advertising at Apple, Inc., says that “there is no such thing as simplicity; there is only the perception of simplicity.” In this video, […]
One moment, every particle in the Universe was massless. Then, they weren’t anymore. Here’s how it happened. In the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was filled […]
NASA announced the five winners of the latest phase of its 3D-Printing Habitat Competition for designing the structures to be used by humans on Mars.
People are bringing heavily edited selfies to plastic surgeons and asking for procedures that will make them look like their idealized versions of themselves.
“Hothouse Earth” is basically a self-sustaining engine of warming and carbon. Ummm…
A new study suggests using “rough scheduling” for leisure activities to avoid making even fun feel like work.
“To promote the development of a commercial asteroid resources industry for outer space in the United States and to increase the exploration and utilization of asteroid resources in outer space.”
A Defense Department project has developed some of the first tools able to detect when videos have been digitally manipulated—content often called deepfake videos.
Biodiversity refers to genetic diversity within species, diversity between species, and diversity of ecosystems. We take a look at all three.
We are living In a time when personal information is readily available online. Although people provide résumés when applying for jobs, employers increasingly turn to social media networks like Facebook, […]
The hallmark of a good scientist is changing your mind when new evidence arises. Here’s what that looks like. Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While a […]
Starbucks isn’t accepting bitcoin—yet.
Why is manipulating people morally wrong but influencing them is not? Here’s the fundamental distinction between manipulation and non-manipulative influence.
This would be the end of one of the longest economic booms since the 1990 Dot Com bubble.
About 3 million tweets from Russian trolls have been published in an effort to illuminate how foreign agents have been disrupting political discourse in the U.S.