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Hubble’s deepest views of space revealed fewer than 10% of the Universe’s galaxies. James Webb will change that forever.

From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.

The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.

The fictitious 31st-century world portrayed by the series is actually quite a bit like our own in the 21st century.

Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.

Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?

The integration of artificial intelligence into public health could have revolutionary implications for the global south—if only it can get online.

Since the mid-1960s, the CMB has been identified with the Big Bang’s leftover glow. Could any alternative explanations still work?

Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.

More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.

Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written. 

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

A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota’s largest patch of old-growth trees.

Here’s your gateway to enjoying the best of literature.

Russia’s cyberattacks against Ukraine have been prolific and ongoing for several years. The future of war may begin in cyberspace.

Hubble showed us what our modern day Universe looks like. JWST’s big goal was to teach us how the Universe grew up. Here’s where we are now.

Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.

Who doesn’t love a little existential fear every once in a while?

Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.

A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

The mass that gravitates and the mass that resists motion are, somehow, the same mass. But even Einstein didn’t know why this is so.

The discovery calls into question the few things scientists know about these powerful astronomical phenomena.

Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?

Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.

The answer may depend on your lifestyle.

Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.

With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.

One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.