The dream of space travel has been usurped by superficiality.
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Fionn Ferreira will receive $50,000 for winning Google’s annual student competition.
A star orbiting past our galaxy’s supermassive black hole offered a chance to test relativity as never before. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is the […]
The ultimate goal is to grow organs inside animals that could be transplanted into humans.
He goes on and on about ideology, but what does it mean?
Russia’s state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom denies the allegations.
A mind-bending physics theory may explain why we have one reality instead of many.
Maura O’Connor discusses her new book, Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World.
Regan Williams, co-founder of Seen and Heard, wants adults to listen to children.
Particle physics is everywhere, even in the palm of your hand. When you hold out your palm and point it towards the sky, what is it that’s interacting with your hand? […]
Researchers recruited more than 1000 polyamorous participants.
The risk of space debris collisions grows greater every year.
It’s part of the nation’s massive reforestation campaign that aims to plant 4 billion trees in 2019.
Our Universe cannot be described by normal matter alone. Vera Rubin’s work led the way. Ask an astrophysicist what our Universe is made of, and you’ll likely receive a shocking surprise. […]
By transplanting Operation Barbarossa on a map of the US, it showed the devastating effects of the Nazi invasion
Our clean energy needs to be sourced responsibly right from the get-go.
In one Indian farming district, many women are paying for expensive and medically unnecessary hysterectomies in order to be more productive at work.
“A serious party neglects the underlying virtues of playfulness and generosity that make a party authentic.”
Combined with high-capacity public transport, AVs could remove 9 out of every 10 cars in a mid-sized European city.
It’s not volcanic activity, and it’s definitely not from a fire. Mars, our red planetary neighbor, is a vastly different world from Earth. Mars and Earth, to scale, shows how much […]
Construction of the $500 billion dollar tech city-state of the future is moving ahead.
Research from MIT reveals common habits and skills present among highly productive managers.
Here’s how to harness the sunlight, even if you’re sitting in an office all day.
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a well-known model of human development, but Maslow’s friend and colleague Kazimierz Dąbrowski believed humans developed in a different way.
With the ivory trade on the decline, poachers have been capitalizing on a new, disturbing trend.
Researchers discover government agencies use facial recognition software on photos from local DMVs.
UNHCR data shows a small but intriguing flow of refugees from countries like France, Germany and the UK
Picking up the thread of a conversation they started two decades ago in Jerusalem, with some help from Lenny Bruce, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, and other influences along the way, host Jason Gots and Williams College professor Jeffrey Israel go deep on private grievances, public life, and where the two overlap.