Reductionism is a successful way to explain the universe, but it cannot replace experience. This is part of the mystery of life.

After 100 million nights of people asking, "What are those twinkly lights?" it is pretty remarkable that we happen to live in one of the first generations that actually knows the answer.

Philosophers and scientists spent millennia arguing about the nature of light. It turned out to be stranger than anyone imagined.

The world is full of great mysteries. This is one of them.

How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!

Does history have a grand narrative, or is it just a random walk to no place in particular? And is the world as we know it about to change?

When Olympic athletes perform dazzling feats of athletic prowess, they are using the same principles of physics that gave birth to stars and planets.

Information may not seem like something physical, yet it has become a central concern for physicists. A wonderful new book explores the importance of the "dataome" for the physical, biological, and human worlds.

One single plot of data embodies the most profound thing we know about the stars.

If you truly want to understand modern astrophysics, knowing how to read this graph is essential.

We live in a world dominated by science, but most people don't understand its most essential characteristic: establishing standards of evidence to keep us from getting fooled by our own biases and opinions.

Reduction is an approach that has been successful in science but is not itself synonymous with "science."

Climate change and artificial intelligence pose substantial — and possibly existential — problems for humanity to solve. Can we?

Make it so.

Like Fox Mulder, people have a lot of strong opinions about UFOs.

Today, it's common knowledge, but it took scientists centuries to figure out.

The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you're doing and watch the original.

No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.

Neither. We are entering an AI autumn.

With the rise of Big Data, methods used to study the movement of stars or atoms can now reveal the movement of people. This could have important implications for cities.

Reductionism offers a narrow view of the universe that fails to explain reality.

Sometimes, moral lessons can be learned from blowing away zombies.

Differences in the way that the Hubble constant—which measures the rate of cosmic expansion—are measured have profound implications for the future of cosmology.

Hunter-gatherers probably had more spare time than you.

75 years after Erwin Schrödinger's prescient description of something like DNA, we still don't know the "laws of life."

Spirituality can be an uncomfortable word for atheists. But does it deserve the antagonism that it gets?

Even diehard fans are experiencing superhero exhaustion. But it's not impossible to do something original.

Three lines of evidence point to the idea of complex, multicellular alien life being a wild goose chase. But are we clever enough to know?

"The Expanse" is the best vision I've ever seen of a space-faring future that may be just a few generations away.

The opening lines of Smartmatic's $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News lay bare the culture of denial in the US.