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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.

Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.

George Orwell got it right: “Never use a long word where a short one will do.”

The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?

In a study involving mice, scientists used two different techniques — one optogenetic and one pharmacologic — to recover “lost” memories.

The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a “reality threshold” that is lower than it should be.

Our model of the Universe, dominated by dark matter and dark energy, explains almost everything we see. Almost. Here’s what remains.

With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.

The polymath used science to elevate his art.

On the largest scales, galaxies don’t simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don’t remain bound together.

Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.

More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.

Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.

Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

Cal Newport explains how you and your teams can accomplish more while improving quality and supercharging workplace morale.

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

The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.

Although human beings arrived on Earth just ~300,000 years ago, we’ve transformed the entire planet completely. Here’s how we did it.

As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.

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

The laws of physics don’t prefer matter over antimatter. So how can we be certain that distant stars & galaxies aren’t made of antimatter?

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

Despite the fact that both species shared a similarly large neocortex, scientists still have many questions about how closely the function of their brains resembled our own.

The old certainties of “business as usual” have been crushed by disruption — here’s a strategy for resilience.

The perfectly accessible, perfectly knowable Universe of classical physics is gone forever, no matter what interpretation you choose.

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

The comedian and musician behind the viral hit “BBL Drizzy” shares the books that shaped his thinking and approach to art.

The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.

A fresh view of intelligence — spanning living systems from bacteria to human civilization — challenges the idea that it’s merely problem-solving.