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After more than two decades of precision measurements, we’ve now reached the “gold standard” for how the pieces don’t fit.

Whether your hair is straight, wavy, curly, or kinky isn’t just genetic in nature. It depends on the physics of your hair’s very atoms.

Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.

Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?

Donate a kidney now, and your loved one will have priority status if they need one later.

Time isn’t the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.

Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.

Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.

Overwashing is bad for skin health, but many people do it anyway. One reason is that our brains intimately associate stink with disgust.

82% of professionals say they’d take a lower-paying job to work for an organization with more ethical business practices. This is just one of the reasons to offer ethics training for employees.

Washington first took the oath of office of the president of the United States with just one natural tooth remaining.

Peer coaching can play a key role in building resilient, high-performing teams, while allowing remote workers to connect with one another from afar. 

One patient’s surprising results have experts cautiously optimistic.

“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”

Researchers speculate the famous monument was one of the world’s first solar calendars, possibly inspired by trade with ancient Egyptians. 

Men with one older brother are 12% more likely to enter a same-sex union than those with a sister.

In 1900, the UK clearly was the richest country in Europe. That’s no longer the case.

The paradox of tribalism is that humans need a sense of belonging to be healthy and happy, but too much tribalism is deadly. We are one tribe.

We’ve fooled ourselves before with galaxies that look just like this one. The evidence we have simply isn’t strong enough.

Is the multiverse real? It’s one of the hottest questions in all of theoretical physics. We invited two astrophysicists to join the debate.

The ANITA experiment found cosmic rays shooting out of Antarctica. One interpretation claims “parallel Universes,” but is that right?

Due to chaos, it was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.

Einstein’s theories of relativity faced fierce opposition. One critic claimed he was attempting to subvert the scientific method.

Poachers drove the Northern White Rhino to extinction. One scientist and her “frozen zoo” are on a mission to bring them back.

One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.

A new study suggests that depressed people may prefer a Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan song to one from The Beach Boys or One Direction.

The story of how Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were made isn’t a universal one. Some gas giants were built different.

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora is one of the reasons why Bryan Walsh sees supervolcanoes as the” single, biggest threat to the human race.”

Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.