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“The pulsar sort of consumes the thing that recycled it, just as the spider eats its mate.”

U.S. nuclear power plants are built to survive external attacks. Even missiles or a commercial aircraft strike would not cause a meltdown or radiation leak.

Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?

Research shows that spending more time on social media is associated with body image issues in boys and young men.

Scientists put the most mysterious force in the Universe to the ultimate test. When it comes to the Universe, it’s easy to make the incorrect assumption that what we see is […]

Hoarders know their habits are abnormal, and yet they cannot help themselves. Maybe you can help them.

Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.

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

Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.

Gradualism rejects the idea of a “bright line” in the abortion debate.

A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.

Has all this happened before, and will all this happen once again? There are only a few questions, when we ask them, that force us to reckon with the fundamental nature […]

People who visit Florence seem strangely susceptible to Stendhal syndrome, which is blamed on an overwhelming sense of awe.

At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.

Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.

If dark energy gets stronger with time, our fate could be an utter catastrophe. When it comes to the entire Universe, one of the biggest existential questions we’re capable of […]

Impressive but deadly physics underlie catastrophic eruptions.

Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.

Researchers dramatically improve the accuracy of a number that connects fundamental forces.

We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.

If there really is another version of you out there in a parallel universe, what can that teach us about reality?

There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.

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

We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!

Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.

At all distances, the Universe expands along our line-of-sight. But we can’t measure side-to-side motions; could it be rotating as well?

“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.” 

The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that “moonmoons” aren’t as uncommon as most astronomers think.

We can describe what we see happening, but we don’t understand why. Despite our vast cosmic knowledge, enormous unknowns remain. The quantum fluctuations inherent to space, stretched across the Universe […]