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We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.

Some 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe became hot, dense, and filled with high-energy quanta all at once. Here’s what it was like.

A new study mapped areas of the U.S. that are most likely to suffer natural disasters.

Are hardened wood knives and nails coming to a store near you?

It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.

Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.

“Painfully forced” is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald’s writing style.

“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”

Two types of leaves for two different drastic weather conditions.

Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.

Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod saved countless lives, but some religious leaders denounced his invention.

Using cellulose from trees and a synthetic polymer, MIT researchers have created a material that “is stronger and tougher than some types of bone, and harder than typical aluminum alloys.”

The typical car is parked 95% of the time.

In a psychedelic state, the relationship between your “narrative” and “minimal” selves seems to transform in unique ways.

Tumor cells traverse many different types of fluids as they travel through the body.

From politics to culture, we blame “tribalism” for humanity’s problems. This explanation is entirely wrong.

Oxytocin can boost heart cells’ ability to regenerate.

When constructed well, post-training survey questions can provide a wealth of information that helps guide future design decisions.

Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.

Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?

Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.

China has always been one of the world’s wealthiest nations, but Chinese wealth looks different across the country’s eventful history.

If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?

Organizational scientist Steven Rogelberg discusses the common meeting mistakes leaders make and how they can change course.

The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?

Not everything that claims to be “scientific” actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.

For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.

With this unique opportunity to create a totally new world, why does the metaverse already feature such old-world concepts?

The heart’s rhythms may play a larger role in shaping psychedelic experiences than previously thought.

If an asteroid hadn’t killed off the dinosaurs, humans would almost certainly have never walked the Earth.