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Topologists can’t tell donuts from coffee mugs, but their maps are revelatory nonetheless.

What we can learn from our complicated relationship with boredom.

A new interactive documentary “How Normal Am I?” helps reveal the shortcomings of facial recognition technology.

“One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,” writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch.

The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.

The line between work and play has became blurred during the pandemic.

While this has been a popular debate, the evidence suggests there isn’t a strong link between pornography use and erectile dysfunction (ED).

Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?

The neoliberal call for more ‘choice’, seems hard to resist.

Is Bitcoin akin to ‘digital gold’?

65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?

Using modern tools, a team of astronomers uses celestial sleuthing to figure out when Vermeer painted his masterpiece “View of Delft.”

Fifty years ago at UCLA, the first message was sent over the predecessor to the internet.

Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.

Video meetings on the popular platform don’t seem to offer end-to-end encryption as advertised.

Put two grapes close together in a microwave and you’ll get an electrifying result, all because of the physics of plasmas.

The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.

What is more important, that a treatment helps keep people healthy or that it meshes with our morals?

From wearable electronics to microscopic sensors to telemedicine, new advances like graphene and supercapacitors are bringing “impossible” electronics to life.

Sharing QAnon disinformation is harming the children devotees purport to help.

The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.

Developing an awareness of and an appreciation for science is what we all truly need, not what we’ve been doing.

Flattening the curve on panic and disinformation.

Pandemic rumors and information overload make separating fact from fancy difficult, putting people’s health and lives at risk.

These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.

It’s insidious and destructive, but there are some things you can do to develop a healthier relationship with material things.

Social media seems to stress some people out. Maybe its time for a break?

Do you sound friendly? Hostile? And which voice would be more likely to buy something?

Can this end flat-Earth theory once and for all?

Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?