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Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.

From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.

Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.

How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.

The Universe certainly formed stars, at one point, for the very first time. But we haven’t found them yet. Here’s what everyone should know.

Scientists across a range of disciplines have helped solve Darwin’s dilemma.

Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.

There were at least four major climate catastrophes that reshaped global religion. It could be happening again.

There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.

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 […]

Are the stellar remnants in our cosmic backyard actually our parents and grandparents?

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

As the first Friedmann equation celebrates its 99th anniversary, it remains the one equation to describe our entire universe.

Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.

The Standard Model may or may not be in trouble, but particle physics definitely needs saving. Here’s what the new LHC can do.

There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.

Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.

Ages 30 to 45 are now “the rush hour of life.”

The majority of countries are democracies. But how many people enjoy democratic rights?

Even tyrants and despots offer wisdom worth heeding.

There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.

If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]

This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.

Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.

The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.

Virtual tourism has thus far been a futuristic dream, but a world shaped by Covid-19 may be ready to accept it.

Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.

Companies can identify you from your music preferences, as well as influence and profit from your behavior.

Types of therapy are about as different as the people who use it.

Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.