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Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.

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

The polymath used science to elevate his art.

Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.

We also don’t know how Tylenol works. But it does work.

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

We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.

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

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

Playing the long game in Japan is about creating something so enduring that it becomes timeless.

Most asteroids aren’t what you think they are.

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

Scientists turn to nature to improve a ubiquitous building material.

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

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

Psychotherapist Israa Nasir explains how a “value-aligned life” can help us crush our goals — without being crushed by the need to accomplish more.

You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?

A simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”

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?

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

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

Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what’s the reason why?

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

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

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

With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.

Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.

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

An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.

Finding a tiny planet around bright stars dozens or hundreds of light-years from Earth is extremely difficult.