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The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?

How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.

For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it’s 26.7 billion. How do we decide?

Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.

You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.

A textbook pregnancy consists of three trimesters. The baby develops at a relatively predictable rate during this time, from pomegranate seed to avocado to watermelon. And mom’s body adapts accordingly […]

We all know that work-life balance can be difficult, but do we make it harder on ourselves by how we choose to conceptualize the idea? More specifically, is the concept […]

Sometimes the value of soft skills feels almost secretive—like some scrap of knowledge handed down through an ancient society of corporate recruiters. Of course, that’s not the case or that’s […]

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

We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.

It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.

A few physical quantities, in all laboratory experiments, are always conserved: including energy. But for the entire Universe? Not so much.

Scientists have long puzzled over how Mars, a cold and dry planet, was once warm enough to support liquid water.

When someone attempts to make you afraid of something that hasn’t happened instead of a true, present danger, suspect this nefarious ploy.

The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.

There’s a lot to love about the innovations of Scrivener 3 for the Mac.

We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.

New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?

Psychedelics have been shown to help reduce depression. This study may show us why.

Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.

In a world without “bullshit jobs,” we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.

A five-year-old reading a picture book in her pillow fort. A college student and his friends at the midnight matinee. A ninety-year-old watching her soaps. What do they have in […]

The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.

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

The mass that gravitates and the mass that resists motion are, somehow, the same mass. But even Einstein didn’t know why this is so.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already changed the world. AI algorithms have been incorporated into everyday applications—such as social media, web mapping, facial recognition, and virtual home assistants—to make them more […]

Theoretical physicist Geoffrey West explains the science behind a unique hypothesis.

We’re overthinking being nice.

Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.

Certain companies feel magical. Though the spells they cast may be unique, each emits an aura that delights customers, attracts top talent, and impels the culture to pay attention. Apple […]