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“Groupthink” gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.

With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.

Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.

Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.

The farther away they get, the smaller distant galaxies look. But only up to a point, and beyond that, they appear larger again. Here’s how.

Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?

Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.

From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.

Carl Jung was one such person.

It is a story with nebulous beginnings and no discernible end.

Helplessness isn’t learned — it’s an instinctual response that can be overcome.

As the stream of AI-generated art turns into a deluge, NFTs could become a cornerstone of the Virtual Renaissance.

Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.

Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.

It has no moving parts and could allow us to tap into renewable energy year round.

Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.

“The digital HQ – the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration – actually became more important than the physical HQ.”

From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.

Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?

Shooting star or piece of space dust?

The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.

Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here’s what would happen if you traveled forever.

Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?

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

The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?

It is through speaking and listening that human beings become who they are.

There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.

Inside the metaverse, your emotions and physical responses will be monitored, and AI will use that data to influence you in real time. Is that essentially mind control?

Successful forgers are remembered as great conmen, not artists. This is strange, considering their forgeries fooled even the most seasoned critics.