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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 […]
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What role can art play in science? An unexpectedly important one, says NASA's Michelle Thaller.
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.”
Charles Koch Foundation
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 […]
Could Alzheimer's be prevented with a simple vaccine? This startup posits that it can.
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.
We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?
On Monday morning, YouTube removed Infowars and The Alex Jones Channel from its platform, following similar bans from Apple, Spotify and Facebook.
The Perseid meteor shower during this weekend's new moon should be fabulous.
A new poll highlights the dramatic influence of partisan thinking in the U.S. with regards to key principles of international law.