Hard Science

Researchers find the most common superstitions in the United States, breaking them down by gender, age and part of the country.

China is is upsetting many of its people by forcibly exhuming the dead to clear space for development.

Einstein believed his greatest blunder to have been the retraction of one of his equations but, as writer David Bodanis tells, the great scientist's misstep actually happened immediately after.

Scientists propose an unexpected location for extraterrestrial life. 

Forget everything you thought you knew about boiling and freezing, thanks to these MIT scientists.  

A massive chart of humankind’s 113 spacecraft so far and where they’ve gone.

Few see how strongly science's preferred languages shape and limit the thinking of many experts. 

Climate change is a topic that's politically charged rather than scientifically charged. Bill Nye offers tips for how those on the side of science can begin to have meaningful conversations with skeptics.

It seems inevitable that there will be a Mars colony, but the path there won't be easy. There are two key challenges ahead that will push innovation. 

As president, Donald Trump is uniquely positioned to bring America back to the Moon.

A theoretical physicist proposes a new way to think about gravity and dark matter.

Scientists produce a value for the cosmic microwave background that will definitely prove or disprove that the speed of light used to be higher.

A recent study sheds light on why we get "food coma" and what foods to avoid.

These are some of the strangest human inventions.

Farewell Moon, we barely knew you. Bill Nye knows the Moon is moving away from Earth 1.48 inches per year. Will it keep drifting further away, and what happens to Earth when it does?

In response to the president elect, NASA's leadership is developing strategies for continuing deep space exploration in the event of budget change or stagnation. 

A study by University of Toronto psychologists reveals how to have a happy sex life in a long-term relationship.

Physicists' ideas about the nature and existence of time may seem incongruent with our experience of it, but author James Gleick makes a case for why we need to keep an open mind.

It takes "deliberate practice," though, to increase your odds of attaining success.

Some have deemed old-fashioned light bulbs as good as dead. But researchers at MIT have devised an incandescent light that's greener than ever.

Bill Nye is always dressed for a party, but this time his celestial bow-tie pays respect to one of our era's greatest discoveries: gravitational waves.

Through an incredible anecdote, Earl Lewis demonstrates why STEM can't do it alone. Scientists and humanists needs each other, and institutions have a responsibility to continue to fund and nurture the humanities.

If humans are going to explore the solar system, we need to figure out how to live in space. The best way to figure that out is on the Moon -- and you can help. Here's how. 

Geneticists make a surprising find in the DNA of Melanesians.

Why are we the way that we are - is it nature or nurture? This week, Bill Nye answers a question from Evan, who is having a science argument with his mom.

It often feels like the repercussions of climate change may not apply directly to you. But here's something that will hit home – a somber prediction for your coffee supply, and all those workers who farm it. 

A recent study reflects that men view their female friends differently than women view their male friends – but by a pretty insignificant margin. 

Two Canadian astronomers publish a paper with an extraordinary claim of possibly detecting alien signals.

Russian researchers unearth over 500 artifacts from a secret Nazi base in the Arctic.

Does life work like our technology? Is life under the hood just like a car sporting souped-up complexity?