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In 1966, Disney announced his intention to build Epcot, an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”

If you thought it was just one rich region in space, look deeper and wider. Shining brilliantly in January’s skies is the Great Orion Nebula. By 10 PM every night in […]

Of course, it’s all about where you move. The authors argue that it needs to be less populous regions.

The vaccine just passed its first clinical trials, but it has a long way to go.

The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche’s legacy.

There are exposed planetary cores orbiting stars, and we may have already found them. When we take a look at the planets in our Solar System, there’s a pretty clear difference […]

Flow Research Collective COO Rian Doris explains how to harness the power of your nervous system to find your flow during a pandemic.

Halley’s comet only visits every ~76 years, but its meteors arrive twice each year. The most famous comet of all — Halley’s comet — returns to our inner Solar System every ~76 years. Halley’s comet […]

From corrupt czars to bloodthirsty Bolsheviks, Russia has had no shortage of bad leaders. But just how evil were they really?

Although everyone knows that coal-based energy is a thing of the past, declarations about nuclear power plants somehow do not want to enter into force.

Gun violence is a public health crisis that is notoriously difficult to study because of politics. Finally, a new research initiative has the green light to collect life-saving data.

Anxiety can be good or bad. It turns out that it’s really up to you.

A virtuous diet isn’t strictly vegan.

We’ve never found eight stars bound together in the same stable system. But nature might make it so. The Universe that we have is often more wondrous and bizarre than even […]

Don’t wait until Christmas to gift a telescope this year. All throughout the year, two bright lights have stood out in the post-sunset skies. Earlier this year, on March 31, 2020, […]

The successor to Hubble is almost ready for launch. It’s really coming this year, too! NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, originally proposed in the 1990s, is finally slated to launch later […]

Catch Saturn at its biggest and brightest, and view its rings while you still can. Right now, in Earth’s skies, Saturn appears at its biggest and brightest. A view of tonight’s […]

When it comes to the quality of school systems and curriculum, does the U.S. need a reality check?

For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?

A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.

By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.

The drive would provide enough thrust for a spacecraft to travel near the speed of light using only electricity, says physicist Jim Woodward.

Social media distorts the reality of the public sphere.

The EU is slowly realizing that it cannot count on the U.S. to meet its security needs. Has the time finally come for a European military?

One man studied apes for 50 years. He says nature isn’t as cruel as you think.

Mice will even run on a wheel in nature. Pheromones help inspire that behavior.

So far, the research is mixed.

“For decades, a national anti-cruelty law was a dream for animal protectionists. Today, it is a reality.”

Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.

New research reveals that the face can affect the shape of the brain through a complex “cross-talk” between the two structures.