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A gigantic bacterium evolved differently than fundamental models of biology would have predicted. Simply put, these bacteria shouldn’t exist.

Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” remain controversial to this day.

Even the dictionary doesn’t get the definition right.

If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.

Neuroscientists think a cluster of cells in the brain that stimulate appetite could be a target for eating disorder therapies.

Travel half the distance to your destination, and there’s always another half to go. Despite Zeno’s Paradox, you always arrive right on time.

Whether in Russia or China, the secret police are defined by their unquestioning loyalty — as well as by their poor career prospects.

“Lac-Phe” grants obese mice the benefits of exercise — without exercising. But don’t expect an “exercise pill.”

One of the fundamental constants of nature, the fine-structure constant, determines so much about our Universe. Here’s why it matters.

Though a single measurement is not enough to definitively decide the debate, this is a major win for dark matter proponents.

Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.

Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.

The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.

A new study upends a long-standing theory on how the brain plans motor actions in uncertain environments.

Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.

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

We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.

Bitcoin’s creator owns five percent of the entire Bitcoin supply, meaning that he has a larger percent of Bitcoin than the U.S. has of gold.

AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.

Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?

For 40 years, scientists thought a specific gene was linked to aggression in hamsters. Removing it, however, had violent consequences.

Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.

Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.

Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.

There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.

All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.

The Universe changes remarkably over time, with some entities surviving and others simply decaying away. Is this cosmic evolution at work?

We forget how unnatural a lot of formal education is. “Learning how to learn” requires bridging the gap between the abstract and the natural.

Many were hoping that JWST would find the first stars of all. Despite many hopeful claims, it hasn’t, and probably can’t. Here’s how we can.

Some Europeans really don’t want to use the internet.