“We suffer more often in the imagination than in reality.”

Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.

Experiments tell us quantum entanglement defies space and time.

Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.

Most philosophers merely contemplate the world, but what about the ones who actually tried to change it?

In a study involving mice, scientists used two different techniques — one optogenetic and one pharmacologic — to recover “lost” memories.

Chloé Valdary shares the ancient Stoic principle that can defeat modern despair.

The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.

The Universe certainly formed stars, at one point, for the very first time. But we haven’t found them yet. Here’s what everyone should know.

Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.

Some experiences continue to pay dividends time and time again.

To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.

X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.

Unlock the full potential of your creativity with holistic detachment. This is the way of the editor.

A history of injustice and the greatest natural location for ground-based telescopes have long been at odds. Here’s how the healing begins.

Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life’s emotions — even the negative ones.

Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.

It’s nearly 20,000 miles long.

Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.

Left–Right, Back–Forth, Up–Down. What’s the fourth dimension?

Along with gravitational lensing and ALMA’s incredible long-wavelength spectroscopy, JWST is reshaping our view of the early Universe.

One of Jetoptera’s VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.

New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.

Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.

Researchers watched for signs of withdrawal — but didn’t find any.

Compared to people who took a placebo, the brains of those who took caffeine pills had a temporarily smaller gray matter volume.

“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”

Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.

How the Big Bang gave us time, explained by theoretical physicist.

The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.