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Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we’re uncovering our own history.

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

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

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.

Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.

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.

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

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

A unique star system where exoplanets orbit their star backwards located by researchers.

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

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

Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.

Not only that, but AI learns what type of faces we like.

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

Anyone up for a crisp, blonde ale?

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

“Ghost gear” leads to hundreds of thousands of animal deaths.

One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.

The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.

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

Driving Teslas and planting trees are nice, but methane reduction, industrial efficiency, carbon removal, and a moderate carbon tax are the most efficient ways to fight climate change.