Though a single measurement is not enough to definitively decide the debate, this is a major win for dark matter proponents.

There is no sure-fire formula for success, but you can be better prepared to create your own.

Is it better to be rational or optimistic? Steven Pinker explains.

He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.

Yes, dark energy is real. Yes, distant galaxies recede faster and faster as time goes on. But the expansion rate isn’t accelerating at all.

The cost of seeing yourself as a thief is pretty steep, the results of a 2019 study suggest.

We only need two numbers to understand why.

While Costco warehouses may remind shoppers of Walmart, this membership-only retailer has a business model that more closely resembles Amazon or Netflix.

Concluding that Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.

65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it probably caused the impact itself.

The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.

The quantum world — and its inherent uncertainty — defies our ability to describe it in words.

Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.

Education has a global bias against boys.

Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.

In 1920, astronomers debated the nature of the Universe. The results were meaningless until years later, when the key evidence arrived.

If you want to sleep more, try working less, eating better, and exercising more. Alternatively, you could emigrate to Albania.

But they’re still lovable.

2023 will see an “arms race” in mixed reality hardware and software. This truly will revolutionize our society.

Quantum mechanics has taught us that even empty space contains energy. “Negative energy” is the state of having less energy than empty space.

As time goes on, dark energy makes distant galaxies recede from us ever faster in our expanding Universe. But nothing truly disappears.

It’s called the “hipster effect,” and a study from Brandeis University mathematician Jonathan Touboul explains how it happens.

Follow your nose all the way home.

Denmark’s 10 Jante Laws are grim, and yet they bring so much happiness. 

2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.

In the grand scheme of the cosmic story, a single year isn’t all that significant. But over time, the annual changes really add up!

It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.

Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.

To the Greek philosopher, all of our actions ultimately aim at our own pleasure.

It was a particularly good year for biotech and medical technology. There were also notable advances in energy.