A quote from a 1995 book by astronomer Carl Sagan describes a world many find disturbingly similar to ours.

It’s a radical but plausible idea.

Although it’s often described as the Amazon of China, Alibaba has a radically different business model that does not rely on inventory management.

A food fight may finally be put to rest.

From synthetic biology to xenotransplantation, biotech will continue to march forward in 2023, in part powered by data and AI.

JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it’s 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.

Hinduism emphasizes the journey, whichever path that takes. And it holds us responsible for our own self-improvement.

Quantum superposition challenges our notions of what is real.

You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.

Clever girl.

Red dwarf stars were supposed to be inhospitable. But TOI-700, now with at least two potentially habitable worlds, is quite the exception.

If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.

The “money taboo” is not a single taboo, but rather an amalgamation of several smaller taboos tied to gender and socioeconomic class.

When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”

When you can’t enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.

The difference between predictions and observations of the magnetic properties of muons suggests a mystery for the Standard Model.

JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.

If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.

Over time, different structures in the brain come to play unique roles in the storage and retrieval of long-term memories.

Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.

Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.

Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.

“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.

Most of us have heard that the Sun is an ordinary, typical, unremarkable star. But science shows we’re actually anything but average.

The automated McDonald’s has a staff comparable to other stores. But the crew members are all focused on making and packaging orders instead of delivering them.

The “subarachnoidal lymphatic-like membrane” helps shield and protect the brain.

How to defeat debaters who deal in distractions, according to a two-time world debate champion.

The authors call it “wildly theoretical” — but let’s take a look, anyway.

“Jumping genes” exist in various forms, including as remnants of ancient retroviruses, and make up about 45% of the human genome.

When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.