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The very word “quantum” makes people’s imaginations run wild. But chances are you’ve fallen for at least one of these myths.

Quantum superposition challenges our notions of what is real.

With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.

Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.

There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.

Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.

Despite many ultra-distant galaxy candidates found with JWST, we still haven’t seen anything from the Universe’s first 250 million years.

A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.

Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.

At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?

Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.

Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?

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

The pandemic and the Great Resignation fed into a perfect storm of inflation — and some restaurateurs cleaned up.

An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”

A new paper combines two concepts from the edges of astrophysics: Dyson Spheres and black holes. A Type III civilization could combine them.

Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.

We can’t go back to the Big Bang, nor ahead to the heat death of the Universe. Nevertheless, here are today’s natural temperature extremes.

If words are really only 7% of communication, then why would anyone need to learn a foreign language?

There’s a speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light in a vacuum. Want to beat the speed of light? Try going through a medium!

The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.

Taking the floor is all about connecting authentically with your audience. Here’s how.

Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.

The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?

Oxygen isn’t strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.

Ever since the start of the hot Big Bang, time ticks forward as the Universe expands. But could time ever run backward, instead?

An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”

A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.

The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.

The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?