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Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.

Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?

“To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action.” So wrote Francis Bacon, counsel to Queen Elizabeth I of England and key architect of the scientific method. In […]

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

Mathematically, it is a monster, but we can understand it in plain English.

Investments in public libraries are a long-term investment in children and communities.

Human organs don’t always show up where doctors expect.

For billions of years on Earth, life was limited to simple unicellular, non-differentiated organisms. In a mere flash, that changed forever.

We all know that work-life balance can be difficult, but do we make it harder on ourselves by how we choose to conceptualize the idea? More specifically, is the concept […]

The last time the population shrank was during the great famine of 1959-61.

Atomic nuclei form in minutes. Atoms form in hundreds of thousands of years. But the “dark ages” rule thereafter, until stars finally form.

Video cameras on city streets are only the most visible way your movements can be tracked.

The Taupo volcano was responsible for one of the most violent eruptions on record.

A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.

At very high and very low temperatures, matter takes on properties that open up an entire Universe of remarkable new possibilities.

The separation of conjoined twins is fraught with stomach-churning biomedical and ethical challenges.

There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.

Most philosophers merely contemplate the world, but what about the ones who actually tried to change it?

These core teachings make an ideal starting point for exploring Buddhist philosophy.

There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.

Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.

It had long seemed impossible that supermassive black holes could grow to such enormous sizes. But the biggest problem is now solved.

Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]

1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.

While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]

Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.

But does Amazon know when you’re tired or hungry?

Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.

The story of China is the story of global economics.

Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.