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Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is both completely normal and absolutely remarkable in a number of ways. Here’s the story of our cosmic home.

The cat-and-mouse game between China and the world’s semiconductor companies is already having enormous consequences.

“It is healthy and normal to be afraid of death.”

All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.

Red dwarf stars were supposed to be inhospitable. But TOI-700, now with at least two potentially habitable worlds, is quite the exception.

A competency framework is a way to align individual performance with organizational goals. Read on to learn how.

If it weren’t for the intricate rules of quantum physics, we wouldn’t have formed neutral atoms “only” ~380,000 years after the Big Bang.

From tulips to Bitcoin, bubbles have been given a bad rap as destroyers of dreams — but they’re essential for our brightest future. Here’s why.

“A person’s mass is made not of ‘stuff’ in the way we normally think about it, but rather our mass is made of energy.”

Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.

Why implementing an individual development plan process is a smart move for organizations today, and how to get started.

The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.

On November 25, U.N. members will meet in South Korea to cap off a series of meetings aiming to reduce global plastic pollution.

A skills gap analysis can help an organization prepare for change and become well-equipped to thrive in the future.

Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.

From gamification to VR, here are 10 ways to make learning fun and engaging.

SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in humans in 2019. Despite much noise generated by lab leak proponents, the evidence indicates a natural origin.

Finding life beyond our Solar System requires understanding its host planet.

The world’s workplaces are growing lonelier — but the solution requires less than you might expect.

“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.

Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.

Some 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe became hot, dense, and filled with high-energy quanta all at once. Here’s what it was like.

“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.

Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.

Even if we traveled at the speed of light, we’d never catch up to these galaxies.

The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.

Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.

LK-99, almost certainly, isn’t a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.

Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.