Hard Science

A number of scientific studies find the traits shared by intelligent people.

Technically, the knife's metal had extraterrestrial origins.

Irish scientists make an unexpected discovery about light by devising a new experiment. 

A Canadian teen who discovered a lost Mayan city via satellite imagery is not backing down from the critics.

Spanish scientists utilize a revolutionary new technique to create sperm from skin in a potential cure for infertility.

Mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry tells the story of zero, a genius idea that transformed human progress.

Your brain is the neural battleground of science and religion, with religious people and atheists differing in intelligence and empathy.  Can the two extremes reconcile?

When Neil deGrasse Tyson recently sat down with infamous whistle blower Edward Snowden, the topic of alien encryption came into the mix.

The famed evolutionary biologist summarizes his research into the genetic basis of evolution.