Mathematics is the most useful tool we have for understanding the Universe. But it doesn’t answer to anything on its own. At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most […]
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Will Storr has written a masterful guide to writing with “The Science of Storytelling.”
Can you make solar power work when the sun goes down? You can, and Dubai is about to run a city that way.
Eating a doughnut isn’t the only way you can go wrong on the keto diet.
It’s massive, it’s transparent, and it’s ubiquitous. But so is our ignorance. When we look out at the Universe, we have two general ways to try and make sense of […]
From understanding human aggression to epigenetics, Stanford University offers all 25 lessons of this fascinating course for free on YouTube.
Can a real pandemic (such as COVID-19) turn into mass hysteria?
Upstreamism advocate Rishi Manchanda calls us to understand health not as a “personal responsibility” but a “common good.”
New research identifies an unexpected source for some of earth’s water.
A new study has some disturbing implications for rodents who like a nice soda.
Convergence 2.0: Engineers are using the “natural genius” of biological systems to produce extraordinary machines—self-assembling batteries, cancer-detecting nanoparticles, super-efficient water filters made from proteins found in blood cells. Neuroscientist and MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield and host Jason Gots discuss what all this could mean for our future.
A consortium of scientists and engineers have proposed that the U.S. and Mexico build a series of guarded solar, wind, natural gas and desalination facilities along the entirety of the border.
The startling discovery comes from researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey.
The relentless sun makes life in the Sahara almost unbearable. But could it also be its greatest resource?
One often-neglected result of climate change is ocean acidification. If this process continues, we may start to see fewer fish and more jellyfish.
The Ghazipur dump keeps growing and growing every year, catching fire and leaching toxins into the ground. What can be done about it?
Hungarian cartographer travels the world while mapping its treasures.
Why a 400-mile enclosure around the North Sea is not as crazy as it sounds
On average, American households dump the equivalent of $1,900 worth of food a year.
“On the spectrum from worry to action, parents can choose to act,” a new report states.
A gift guide of the hottest educational toys for your budding scientist, engineer, or mathematician.
Visiting even one friend can undo all the good work that social distancing has accomplished. Over the past few months, people all over the world have come to realize just […]
It’s strange to think that something that died 76m years ago plays a role in modern ecosystems, but life is opportunistic.
Lucy in the Sky film doesn’t deliver what it implies, but is a wacky docudrama instead.
‘The Broad and Narrow Way’ helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.
Maybe you’ve heard the term “self-actualization” bandied about at a party or by an inspirational speaker? Popularized by psychologist Abraham Maslow, the theory argues that we can realize our full […]
The planet has had life on it, in some form or another, for nearly as long as Earth has existed. If you came to our Solar System right after it formed, […]
Project to map global ‘species richness’ highlights the variety of biodiversity itself
The blob that’s astonishing science gets its own exhibit.