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The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.

Millennials — who were raised to expect unlimited success but found only disappointment — can be drawn to manifestation.

The concept of ‘relativistic mass’ has been around almost as long as relativity has. But is it a reasonable way to make sense of things?

“Can we push these cells to do something other than what they normally do?” asks developmental biologist Michael Levin. “Can they build something completely different?”

In ancient Rome, collective bathing was the norm. In the West today, it’s the exception — and that’s too bad.

Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won’t get you an infinite amount of energy. There’s a fundamental limit due to physics.

The outer planets’ clouds hide the weirdness within.

Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What’s the root cause of this Hubble tension?

Learn to spot the scientists who are searching for the truth rather than money, ego, or fame.

The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.

Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?

Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”

It’s simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here’s both how it works and how to use it.

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.

After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!

Over time, the Universe becomes less dominated by dark matter and more dominated by dark energy. Is one transforming into the other?

By studying the oldest animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.

This opens the door to manipulating networks of specific neurons.

Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.

Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.

NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.

Everything that gets heated up has to, somehow, radiate that energy away. Here’s what we see when that happens in the Universe.

Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.

We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.

Are quantum fields real, or are they simply calculational tools? These 3 experiments show that if energy is real, so are quantum fields.

In our common experience, you can’t get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.

A study involving nearly 2,000 people found links between personality traits and the likelihood of moving toward or away from dementia.

As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.

The dark genome makes up 98% of human DNA. Scientists are just beginning to understand its role in cognitive disorders.

The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.