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There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.

“Part of what’s happening now in the world is tension between organic animals and an inorganic digital system which is increasingly controlling and shaping the entire world.”

The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

Our thermodynamic arrow of time explains why the entropy of any isolated system always increases. But it can’t explain what we perceive.

For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.

According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.

Lost in a building or underwater? A new muon-based navigation system could be your guide.

Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.

Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.

Nearly half of all stars are born in binary systems, with the most massive ones dying the fastest. It’s not pretty for the “second” star.

In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.

From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.

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.

Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?

Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.

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

A healthy endocannabinoid system is critical to the human body’s immune functions.

Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.

How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.

All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.

The future belongs to complexity.

This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe.

It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.

The mind-blowing theory that everything is evolving—from minerals to music—explained in 3 minutes by a Carnegie scientist.

Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.

The 5th brightest star in our night sky is young, blue, and apparently devoid of massive planets. New JWST observations deepen the mystery.

It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.

Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.

As AI evolves — and more robotic warfare systems are deployed — the nature of conflict could change beyond recognition.