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Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.

The hyperloop would be a great idea for a completely flat planet. With topography and infrastructure, it’s a very different story.

In the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it means.

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

Moral panics about the content of children’s cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.

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

In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell “up” provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.

New chip eliminates the need for specific decoding hardware, boosting gaming systems, 5G networks, and more.

If you want to share the truths about our Universe with others, don’t fall into the trap of arguing with a misinformer. Do this instead.

By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.

Movie soundtracks don’t just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.

With a new telescope on the horizon, we reflect on the best pictures of space that came before.

Mixed messages and competing interests have left college students feeling lost and stressed.

American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.

NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.

Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?

Based on the atoms that they’re made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here’s why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.

No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.

The new treatment targets the underlying genetic cause of the disease.

All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]

Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.

The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.

In Sun-like stars, hydrogen gets fused into helium. In the Big Bang, hydrogen fusion also makes helium. But they aren’t close to the same.

Scientists should be cautious when expressing an opinion based on little more than speculation.

Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs, but even if you can’t join the Great Resignation, you can still pursue a do-over moment.

Fear that new technologies are addictive isn’t a modern phenomenon.

The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?

“Hubble’s Law” is only an approximation, and breaks down when we need it most. From anywhere in the Universe, you can choose to look out at any other galaxy that’s present. […]

A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]

If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?