There are 38 kinds of secrets. The average person has 13 at any given moment. Michael Slepian explains how that can affect your health.

More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.

Like his “Mona Lisa,” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.

Oxytocin can boost heart cells’ ability to regenerate.

Something doesn’t add up.

The media is deliberately pushing your buttons.

“Conflict is useful. The question is how do you deal with conflict effectively.”

Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.

Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?

“Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics.”

More than half of Americans feel anxious over their financial situation.

Black widows live up to their name.

From Aristotle’s lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant’s “scientific” racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.

Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.

How much can something change and still be the same thing?

Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?

How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker? 

Today’s careers don’t offer a clear path forward, but the rewards can be worth more than a gold watch at retirement.

The Universe gravitates so that normal matter and General Relativity alone can’t explain it. Here’s why dark matter beats modified gravity.

Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.

The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.

We are not yet at the point where quantum communications can be deployed to secure the internet, but we might not be far off. 

If you believe that you’re perfect, then somebody else must be responsible for your failures.

It’s literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can’t cut the mustard.

Research has found that words are more accurately heard when accompanied by hand gestures.

Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.

Would you really want that, anyway?

We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.

1.9 billion years ago, a star’s explosive death created a black hole. Its light just arrived at Earth. But did it set a cosmic record?

Biotechnology can convert enemy viruses into anti-cancer mercenaries.