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Marcus Tullius Cicero is widely regarded as one of the most gifted orators in human history. His writings can teach us a lot about the lost art of public speaking.

With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.

A new study calls the technique “location spoofing.”

Equations that describe time travel are fully compatible and consistent with relativity — but physics is not mathematics.

Scientists use high resolution microscopy and computer simulations to create first ever video of DNA movements.

Why are rapture ideologies exploding?

Elephants mourn the dead, dolphins give names to each other, and insects can recognize faces. The animal world is much smarter than we think.

The universe is only 13.8 billion years old, but we can see back 46.1 billion light-years. Here’s how the expanding universe does it.

When other treatments fail, this radical surgery could help.

The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that “moonmoons” aren’t as uncommon as most astronomers think.

Galactic archaeology has uncovered a spectacular find: the Milky Way already existed more than 13 billion years ago.

There’s a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.

Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is the kind of film that makes you laugh and cry at the same time.

Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448) can help reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.

If you think it’s just three quarks held together by gluons, you’ll want to read this. At a fundamental level, the Universe is composed of indivisible particles. From macroscopic scales down […]

A skills gap analysis can help an organization prepare for change and become well-equipped to thrive in the future.

The highest earning Myers-Briggs personality type? ENTJ.

Bite into a miracle berry and you’ll perceive intense sweetness — but only after you eat something acidic, too.

50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]

Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?

Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.

Researchers figure out the function of mysterious heart structures first described by da Vinci.

The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we’ll someday detect it directly. But what if we can’t?

If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.

If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.

Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.

In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”

Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.

There’s never been a better time to implement empathy training.

Cannabidiol (CBD) seems to reduce the unpleasantness of pain, a finding that surprised the researchers behind a new, first-of-its-kind study.