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This year’s prize represents not just a single example of brilliant work, but generations of advancements that led to it. Every year, the most prestigious prize in the most fundamental of […]
Getting your vote to where it matters can be harder and more corrupt than it should be. Could blockchain technology build a better system and rebuild people’s trust?
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The field of Artificial Intelligence is pushing back against a newcomer — for good reason.
The first image of an Event Horizon is here. Here’s what it means. Variety isn’t just the spice of life, but a natural consequence of living in our Universe. Gravitation, obeying […]
Was Oscar Wilde—witty author, gay rights icon, and lover of champagne and material beauty—a radical socialist?
A new study shows that U.S. students infected with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite are more likely to be business managers and entrepreneurs.
Addiction Now has developed infographics based on a survey of 1,000 people who were asked what they thought would be appropriate sentences for drug crimes. It’s pretty different than what they really are.
Vision restoration is the main goal, but the CustomFlex Artificial Iris could also be used for cosmetic purposes.
For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.
The Parker Solar Probe is the first time a spacecraft will ever get this close to the sun.
Climate change poses a threat to our mental health. Building connected communities is one way to combat a rise in suicide rates as global temperatures increase.
One of the night sky’s most famous sights isn’t what it appears to be. Perhaps the most famous sight of a dying star is the Ring Nebula, known since 1779. The […]
There’s a reason why all the world seems to be hiding within the borders of Maine.
Could this be the long-awaited solution to economic inequality?
A groundbreaking new study shows that octopuses seemed to exhibit uncharacteristically social behavior when given MDMA, the psychedelic drug commonly known as ecstasy.
Gravity gets weaker as the distance squared. But gravitational waves only get weaker as the distance. Why? One of the things we often just accept about the world is that […]
Despite its prominence in our collective imagination, variations in metabolism play a minor role in obesity.
Colorado and Oregon are leading the charge.
A team at MIT has discovered that human brains are capable of “seeing” ghost images hidden between groups of patterns captured by single-pixel cameras.
Intelligent aliens, if they exist in the galaxy or the Universe, might be detectable from a variety of signals: electromagnetic, from planet modification, or because they’re spacefaring. But we haven’t […]
China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it’s leaving many in the global community concerned as to why.
It neutralized not only the tumor it was injected into but malignancies all over the body.
We often support ideas without knowing quite why. John Stuart Mill reminds us why capitalism can be great for us and why we should be wary of state power.
We need a public mature enough to recognize that policy decisions and actions are more relevant to leadership than professed beliefs.
Everything we know can be traced back to the Big Bang, and before that, cosmic inflation. But what if we look to the future? Looking out at the Universe today, it’s […]
Every country is unique—but only America is extraordinary
NASA has found organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater on Mars. Is it just a matter of time before life is discovered on the red planet?
If you photograph the Sun at the same time every day, you get a bizarre figure-8 shape: an analemma. Here’s why. At any time of day, you could theoretically set up […]