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The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.

These theoretical megastructures represent one way an advanced civilization might harvest energy from stars.

Seventy-five years after the anomaly’s discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs, but even if you can’t join the Great Resignation, you can still pursue a do-over moment.

A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.

Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.

Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?

Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.

The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.

Experts say it’s likely space junk—and there’s plenty more where that came from.

Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here’s why it remains fascinating.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.

Alzheimer’s disease is frightening, but the right combination of lifestyle choices can reduce your risk.

It’s been 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. But if it’s expanding, then what is it expanding into?

Next year is the perfect time to have better conversations!

With crisis management training, organizations can develop the agility to recover from crises with as little disruption as possible.

Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.

Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.

Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see objects up to 46.1 billion light-years away. No, this doesn’t violate relativity.

Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They’re more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

When the hot Big Bang first occurred, the Universe reached a maximum temperature never recreated since. What was it like back then?

The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?

The fabric of spacetime is four-dimensional, with three for space and only one for time. But wow, time sure is different from space!

A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.

We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.

Human beings are tiny creatures compared to the 92 billion light-year wide observable Universe. How can we comprehend such large scales?

Einstein’s theory of general relativity introduced the concept of space having a shape. So, what is the shape of space?