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If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.

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

Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?

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

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

There are many things in life that cannot be improved with greater effort. Sometimes, life requires that you step back.

Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.

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.

Is science close to explaining everything about our Universe? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder reacts.

Dark matter doesn’t absorb or emit light, but it gravitates. Instead of something exotic and novel, could it just be dark, normal matter?

How are we to deal with the quantization of spacetime and gravity?

Synthetic biology has the power to cure and kill. Have we learned from our past mistakes?

Historically, astronomers have often named things creatively, bizarrely, and often inaccurately. But which terms are the most egregious?

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.

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

Financial setbacks are more common than you might think.

You can’t control external threats, but you can manage how you prepare and respond to the risk.

Why do you feel, think, and behave in the ways you do? Here are five frameworks psychologists use to answer those questions.

Mixed messages and competing interests have left college students feeling lost and stressed.

We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn’t among them.

In “Life As No One Knows It,” Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of “things” is how life uses information.

Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.

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

To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.

His $1 million ARC Prize competition is designed to put us on the right path.

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?

From time-traveling billiard balls to information-destroying black holes, the world’s got plenty of puzzles that are hard to wrap your head around.

In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?

It has perhaps never been easier to feel as if you’ve fallen behind in life. From the anxieties of comparing yourself to others online to our fetishization of success, it […]

Northern lights in the American South, clusters of huge geomagnetic storms—the Sun is throwing a tantrum right on schedule.