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He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.

It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.

It’s sustainable, nutritious and delicious. Scientists need to ramp up efforts to meet this urgent need.

As technology advances, the use of laser weapons in space becomes more likely.

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

Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.

In our Universe, dark matter outmasses normal matter by a 5-to-1 ratio, shaping the Universe as we know it. What if it simply weren’t there?

Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.

Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.

Artificial intelligence is much more than image generation and smart-sounding chatbots; it’s also a Nobel-worthy endeavor rooted in physics!

With such a vast Universe and raw ingredients that seem to be everywhere, could it really be possible that humanity is truly alone?

National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.

After drastic cuts to the NIH, the FDA, the NSF, and the DOE, NASA science faces down its smallest budget ever. All of society will suffer.

Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?

We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn’t among them.

Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.

Caption:“At this time in Mars’ history, we think CO2 is everywhere, in every nook and cranny, and water percolating through the rocks is full of CO2 too,” Joshua Murray says.

Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.

Nurture your passions instead.

The CMB gives us critical information about our cosmic past. But it doesn’t give us everything, and galaxy mapping can fill in a key gap.

The problem with carnivores turned omnivores.

Architecture in the age of AI — argues professor Nayef Al-Rodhan — should embed philosophical inquiry in its transdisciplinary toolkit.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Scientists solve a long-standing mystery in Bavaria.

Chemists could replace bubbling flasks with tumbling ball mills.

From flow to emotional intelligence, these insightful books feature actionable advice you can try out today.

Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.

Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?

Matter is made up largely of atoms, where atomic nuclei can contain up to 100 protons or more. But how were the heaviest elements made?

Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.