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Don’t know Ellsworth Kelly or his art? Now’s your chance — he’s dead.

And is blue even a rare color for planets? “Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that precious […]

Science is the best tool we have for predicting the future. Here’s what the next year ought to bring. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s […]

Those who work for nonprofits and NGOs can avoid mental exhaustion by realizing they’re not Superman.

Two Virginia Tech students, David Eisenhauer, 18, and Natalie Keepers, 19, are at the center of a murder investigation. So is the social media app Kik.

There is a lot of hypocrisy in the way Naomi Oreskes attacks four renowned climate scientists.

The media treated the 10-year anniversary of Katrina with reverence. They should have been hard at work exposing the ugliness that still remains.

Nigeria is building houses out of a most unusual building block.

The supply chain for recycling paper burns more fossil fuel than it needs to. Epson has come up with a solution.

And, at a fundamental level, it can never be one. “Even when Darwin’s teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning […]

We will need a good dose of healthy stoicism if we are to survive in the world after work. 

There is a new SAT exam in town, and it’s a major revision. This five-question quiz will test the limits of your vocabulary.

And because of it, we can learn about quantum entanglement across a black hole’s event horizon. This article was contributed to Starts With A Bang by Sabine Hossenfelder, whose blog, Backreaction, […]

Telling the stories of our lives, weaving dreams of lives we wish we had, and bringing back memories in a rush, music is a powerful force. We, as consumers, are primarily concerned with the application of the lyrics to our lives and danceability of the track.

Our behaviors are measured, assessed, and evaluated in increments, all the little things we do. The future isn’t solely about big data; it’s about little data and its risky union with big data.

It’s been 60 years since Rosa Parks stood up for equality on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. What would she have to say today?

Amidst international conversations about climate change, Chinese artists are turning pollution into an artistic endeavor.

If you’re a white, middle-class woman who scans the headlines all day, you’re more likely than not to be among the angriest of Americans.

The largest asteroid in the Solar System is hiding volatile materials that have never seen the Sun. “Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the […]

An ill-timed, tone-deaf tweet is excusable. An ill-timed, tone-deaf ad campaign isn’t.

The Shipping Forecast is quite possibly the most British thing ever.

Take part in the biggest media campaign in history and spread awareness of UN’s Global Goals for the next 15 years. 

Have you been enjoying learning about the Universe? There’s always so much to cover that we’re never going to run out of stories to tell, new discoveries to report on, […]

Creating a fabric of knowledge to inspire and connect the world.

Free markets aren’t like gravity. They’re ruled by neither laws of nature nor commandments carved in stone. Delegating our ethics to markets risks costly error. All things are not equally auctionable.

We all make small mistakes, but sometimes journalists report the complete and utter opposite of what a study really found.

How can we get kids to drink more water?

Free riders choose to reap the rewards of a public good without paying their portion of the cost necessary to produce it.

Geology rocks! “Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.” –Jane Porter There are plenty of people out there who’ll give you a rundown of what your birthstone […]

At 104 years old, Grace Brett’s “yarn-bombing” of numerous towns in Scotland is a sight the whole world should see. “Some people become vandals because they want to make the […]