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In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.

There are three kinds of memory that all work together to shape your reality. Neuroscientist André Fenton explains.

“Tristram Shandy” trolled its way to fame.

Why do you feel, think, and behave in the ways you do? Here are five frameworks psychologists use to answer those questions.

The “love hormone” might be an unexplored treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.

For nearly 25 years, we thought we knew how the Universe would end. Now, new measurements point to a profoundly different conclusion.

There’s no upper limit to how massive galaxies or black holes can be, but the most massive known star is only ~260 solar masses. Here’s why.

Theoretical physicist Brian Greene explores the potential particles of time and why we could, in theory, travel forward in time but not back.

Research suggests you can influence your sense of time by changing the “embodiedness” of your daily habits.

A reader asks whether we have an ethical responsibility to always debate bad beliefs, especially those that come from our elders.

All the stars, stellar corpses, planets, and other large, massive objects take on spherical or spheroidal shapes. Why is that universal?

Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here’s what to know.

Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?

Women bring new and innovative ways of exercising power to the table, argues Gaia van der Esch. All business teams will benefit.

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. 

Will “Sausage Party” survive the test of time?

The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.

We get more REM sleep in the winter.

The polymath used science to elevate his art.

It’s safe to use your face cream, as long as you aren’t eating it.

Hundreds of these cannabis-related chemicals now exist, both natural and synthetic, inspiring researchers in search of medical breakthroughs.

In many ways, we are still novices playing with toy models seeking to understand the stars. 

Cooperation was the first technology.

Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.

Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.

When migraine and tension-headache patients overuse their medications, they can actually trigger more headaches.

As early as we’ve been able to identify them, the youngest galaxies seem to have large supermassive black holes. Here’s how they were made.

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.

There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.