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Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?

Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Greg Lopez discuss how Stoicism can help us gain perspective on our emotions and act with intention in the world.

This female-founded brand made Forbes 30 Under 30 list this year for its diverse, authentic, and affordable stock photography.

The image you’re seeing isn’t a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren’t hole-like at all.

That Nietzsche quote might not mean what you think it does.

Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.

Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.

Did America’s collective mental health get worse (and then better) after the first COVID-19 lockdown?

The same parts of the brain that help us navigate complex social interactions can also drive us to make wildly bad investments.

The idea behind the law was simple: make it more difficult for online sex traffickers to find victims.

“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair

As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.

Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.

Engineers borrowed the maple tree’s “helicopter” to design tiny, flying microchips, which perform various tasks while in whirling free fall.

Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.

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

NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.

The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.

The creator of the index called it a public utility for accessing the “vast ocean” of human knowledge.

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.

Breakthrough technology uses multiplexing entanglement to make an ultra-secure quantum internet.

The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.

I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”

Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?

Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.

People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.

Argentina’s black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it’s not what crypto proponents expected.

Icebergs aren’t just a threat to unsinkable ships. Their ability to cause underwater landslides poses a danger to coastal cities.