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A new study performed at MIT suggests that children remain very skilled at learning the grammar of a new language much longer than expected.

A questionable new study suggests green tea may be able to reduce the effect of Down syndrome on facial features.

There are plenty of questions we don’t know the answer to. With quantum gravity, they might be solved! This article is written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized […]

If spacetime is like a fabric, and mass bends it, what flattens it back out again? Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That’s […]

Intelligent aliens, if they exist in the galaxy or the Universe, might be detectable from a variety of signals: electromagnetic, from planet modification, or because they’re spacefaring. But we haven’t […]

A new study highlights how blockchain technology can be a game-changer in education.

Every professional organization of scientists has a code of ethics and/or conduct. Why not apply it to their journals? When it comes to exploring the Universe, many young people get […]

Ready Player One’s spectacular VR OASIS experience has us wondering how achievable it really is and when we’ll start seeing immersive VR movies.

NYU scientists teach an artificial intelligence program to win at “Battleship” by asking questions.

Understanding this evaluation process may help us create more sophisticated A.I.

One option was presented as the “future of how we’ll unlock our smartphones.”

A new study of the stone monuments on Easter Island reveals the mysteries of the ancient people who made them.

The capabilities on this thing are both impressive and worrisome.

A new report finds China is now the leading nation in the publication of science and engineering research.

This remarkable breakthrough is sure to usher in a new generation of robots.

How much free will do you actually have? This week’s Comment of the Week is fantastic and raises an interesting debate. What do you think? 

A top-secret government airline that flies to locations like Area 51 is put in a spotlight by a recent ad and an unexpected connection to the Las Vegas shooting. 

A supervised learning algorithm can predict clinical depression much earlier and more accurately than trained health professionals.

In 1944, the economist, physicist, mathematician and computer scientist John von Neumann published a book that became a sensation, at least among mathematicians – Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. […]

First, let me tell you how smart I am. So smart. My fifth-grade teacher said I was gifted in mathematics and, looking back, I have to admit that she was […]

When the past and future are no longer connected, some pretty weird stuff happens.

There’s a complex biological system behind our intuition.

Almost two-thirds of doctors in the U.S. say they’re burned out, depressed, or both. What do we do when the very people charged with safeguarding our health against the effects of burnout are themselves suffering from burnout?

A predictive-keyboard app has just written an utterly crazy new Harry Potter chapter and the internet loves it.

If you don’t learn this one lesson, you’ll not only never be good at science, you’ll never learn anything new. “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong […]

Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.

A new study overturns the conventional thinking about how we focus our visual attention.

More modern cars are easier to hack. So are pacemakers and other medical devices. What does that mean for the future?

Researchers at Human Longevity have developed technology that can generate images of individuals face using only their genetic information. But not all are convinced.

While it’s reasonable to trust that science will eventually answer our unsolved questions, assuming that it has all of the answers right now is not.