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We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.

One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.

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?

Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?

A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”

What the hell is “re-engineering business value creation systems” anyway?

Nothing can escape from a black hole. So where do Hawking radiation, relativistic jets, and X-ray emissions around black holes come from?

The pandemic and the Great Resignation fed into a perfect storm of inflation — and some restaurateurs cleaned up.

The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.

The “attention economy” corrupts science.

We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.

Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.

We have very specific predictions for how particles ought to decay. When we look at B-mesons all together, something vital doesn’t add up.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

The Big Bang’s hot glow faded away after only a few million years, leaving the Universe dark until the first stars formed. Oh, the changes!

Many Americans aren’t rejecting spirituality, just practicing it differently.

JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.

Gravitational waves carry enormous amounts of energy, but spread out quickly once they leave the source. Could they ever create black holes?

Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age.

Humans, when we consider space travel, recognize the need for gravity. Without our planet, is artificial or antigravity even possible?

If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.

The most common visual depictions of the history of the Universe show the Big Bang as a growing tube with an “ignition” point. Why is that?

Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.

Our understanding always will remain incomplete.

The results of a 2021 study suggest that the world’s most powerful psychedelic may be an underutilized peace-building tool.

New chip eliminates the need for specific decoding hardware, boosting gaming systems, 5G networks, and more.

It’s 2024, and we still only know of the fundamental particles of the Standard Model: nothing more. But these 8 unanswered questions remain.

It’s a problem on both sides of the political divide.

The quantum world — and its inherent uncertainty — defies our ability to describe it in words.

What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?