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Nye has spent almost his whole career teaching kids, but he’s hated by right-wing ideologues for spreading the word of science.

Today’s children and youth are very tech savvy and easily use tablets, laptops, and smartphones to access the Internet, play games and consume media. AR can put that on fast-forward.

The probe, no larger than a car, will be the closest a man-made object has ever gotten to the sun. We will be able to study and see it like we’ve never seen it before.

In his new book, Dying For a Paycheck, Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer says we have to change the workplace environment—now.

Dark matter feels fake. MOND sounds plausible. What should you conclude? Imagine I told you that everything you ever saw, touched, or experienced — in this world and in the Universe beyond — was […]

For hundreds of millions of years, most of the starlight never made it through space. Here’s how that changed. Forming stars sounds like the easiest thing in the Universe to do. […]

Despite his famous successes, Einstein also had some failures.

Fill up your gas tank, no matter how hot it is, with confidence and safety from anywhere on Earth. For most of the northern hemisphere, summer is in full swing. Along […]

As Facebook users around the world are coming to understand, some of their favorite technologies can be used against them. It’s not just the scandal over psychological profiling firm Cambridge […]

The answer can give us an indication of where our universe is headed and how it might end.

Our always-on culture has us working harder, doing more, and sleeping less. While the health ailments of sleep deprivation are well known, a study by Rand Europe shows that it is costing the economy as well, with the U.S. estimated to lose up to $434 billion in 2020.

Spoiler: it isn’t the end of the Universe, and it’s not likely to lead to new evidence for the Multiverse, either. On March 14, 2018, the most famous and celebrated […]

If you want to know how we get something from nothing, you’d better understand what we mean! When we look around at our world and Universe today, we talk and think […]

To better understand our place in the world, check out these groundbreaking books. 

Figure skating has a lot to do with physics, and here’s what we mean. Also, what’s the difference between all those figure-skating jumps?

Even though couples tend to live healthier lifestyles, they put on extra weight. A new study offers potential clues why.

Surprisingly, the evidence points towards the existence of the unobservable multiverse. But it isn’t the answer you’re looking for. “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that […]

The science of volcanic lighting is almost as spectacular as the phenomenon itself. When hot, molten rock pushes its way up through the Earth’s crust and exits through to the […]

This could change everything we know about gravity and universal expansion.

Life never ceases to surprise, even when faced with the unforgiving environment of space.

New principled approach helps autonomous underwater vehicles explore the ocean in an intelligent, energy-efficient manner.

There’s a smallest scale and a shortest time at which physics makes any sense. What sets that limit? “There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.” –Dick […]

A.I. churches are springing up, even if just online, yet they’re speaking a very old language.

Self-actualization is a great goal, but how easy is it to actually reach?

If you haven’t finished your holiday shopping yet, consider these 10 gifts, good any time of year! One of the hardest things when it comes to holiday shopping is to find […]

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience shows that stress changes the structure of mouse brains—in partners who did not experience stress.

A theory proposes that the universe is not speeding up in its expansion but that time is actually slowing down.

You’ve heard of the big Greek philosophers. Now, read about the ones who inspired them.

Could it simply be pleasure for its own sake?

If emissions don’t go down, there’s still an option for combatting global warming. We just have to effectively dim the Sun. Global climate change is one of the most pressing long-term […]