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Feeling motivated at work feels good, and it’s good for business. But employees and managers don’t always see eye-to-eye on this very important topic.

If you heard about time crystals, be aware that they do exist. But learn what they mean. “Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time […]

A proto-consciousness field theory could replace the theory of dark matter, one physicist states.   

Stephen Hawking has accepted an offer to go to space. He’s one of the world’s most famous scientists, who’s been paralyzed due to ALS for much of his life.

The smart money is still on LIGO, but there sure looks like something funny is happening if the new group is correct. This article was contributed by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine […]

Microchipping humans may be common in the future. The prospect of constantly being tracked and online raises some major ethical concerns. Futurist and humanist Gerd Leonhard provides insight into where we’re headed.

Could the Universe have been born completely uniform and still given rise to us? “First, you should check out my house. It’s, like, kinda lame, but way less lame than, like, […]

Germany is becoming the first country in the world to start operating a fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains that emit only steam and water.

If all we had were hydrogen and helium after the Universe were born, we wouldn’t be here today. “The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical […]

Elon Musk has a plan and part of that plan came together when it acquired SolarCity for $2.6 billion. 

The ELT, at 39 meters in diameter, will dwarf everything that’s ever come before. “There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don’t have much relevance. […]

Unfortunately, humanity will never see it coming.   

“We’re opening up a whole new territory of astronomy,” One NASA official said.   

The atoms, planets, stars, and even galaxies aren’t expanding, even though space is. How come? This article was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity […]

NASA scientists discover what two places in the solar system might have favorable conditions for alien life.

The flash lasts seconds, the brightness dies down in months. Yet centuries later, the remnant still shines. “When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things — not […]

Bill Nye is always dressed for a party, but this time his celestial bow-tie pays respect to one of our era’s greatest discoveries: gravitational waves.

Don’t work with children or animals? Sir David Attenborough laughs in the face of danger.

How Costa Rica achieved 100% renewable energy, and what it means.

Only two things will change the minds of science skeptics: appeals to their ego, or their wallets.

If anyone can convince Donald J. Trump to take climate change seriously, it might be the US military.

Where gravity comes from has been an utter mystery. String theory offers an explanation. 

Before we go venturing off to another star to look for life, why not look here? “If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than […]

Under President Trump, the state-level requirements mandating credit from utility companies for excess power sent back to the grid should survive.

But are any of these potentially Earth-like worlds actually inhabited? Here are the prospects. “It isn’t only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It’s the sense I […]

If it proves true, it could heal the rift between quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.   

Either momentum truly is conserved and this isn’t a reactionless drive… or else. “The law of the conservation of momentum is the basis of the static thrust equation, the law of […]

Before the Big Bang… after the Big Freeze… will everything look the same? “What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as […]

The biological process they go through is similar to how yeast turns sugar into alcohol. 

When a quantum interaction happens, one interpretation leads to an infinite number of parallel Universes. Here’s how that could be true. “As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with […]