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There are many problems with relying on SAT and ACT scores for college admissions. But removing them entirely creates less opportunity.

Leading a scientific revolution is easy: you just have to succeed where the current theory fails while equaling its successes. Good luck!

The “Foundation” series, recently adapted into a show by Apple TV, was inspired by a fascinating, real-life academic discipline.

Science doesn’t fit neatly into ideology.

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

Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.

Yes, “the laws of physics break down” at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.

Real-time online learning is where our dated education system is heading.

This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.

A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?

Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.

Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.

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

We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.

“At that time, it was just a wild idea, […] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”

Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.

Reading code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.

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

Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.

If measuring eLearning ROI is so important, why aren’t more organizations doing it?

People often divide the world into “us” and “them” then forget about everybody else.

Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?

Almost 10% of all new jobs created between 2020 and 2030 will unfortunately be some of the lowest paid.

Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.

Science cannot be isolated from culture.

If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.

Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.

Life finds a way — particularly if it has a moon.

JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.

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