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AI has become a black box in more ways than one.

Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.

From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.

It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.

Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.

The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.

Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?

Give yourself (and others) a break.

Hospice nurse Julie McFadden shares three examples where people hold off death, just for a bit.

Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.

When you mix science with speculation, you get speculation. But the underlying science is still real. Whenever you hear the phrase, “it’s just a theory,” it should trigger alarm bells in […]

Nobody actually knows what will come of AI. But we can console ourselves with the knowledge that nobody has ever really known anything about the future.

Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.

It happened more than once, and needed to. Here’s why. If there’s one thing you can be certain about when it comes to outer space, it’s that it’s transparent, not opaque, […]

Many have argued that morals are relative, but Russia’s war crimes reveal the hollowness of that belief. Morality is universal and objective.

Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.

These dissolvable pills aren’t meant to be swallowed, though.

Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.

The typical car is parked 95% of the time.

From up close, the cracking sound of a thunderclap dominates. From far away, it’s more like a drawn-out rumble. Can science explain why?

How can you “touch the Sun” if you’ve always been inside the solar corona, yet will never reach the Sun’s photosphere?

Once merely a theoretical curiosity, they might be the key to understanding so much more. Out of all of the known particles — both fundamental and composite — there are a whole slew of properties […]

Leftover Cold War-era bunkers are still kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war.

The whole isn’t greater than the sum of its parts; that’s a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.

It’s been precisely 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang occurred. Here’s how we know.

The raw ingredients just weren’t there. Thankfully, their predecessors were. Here on Earth, our planet practically overflows with life. After more than 4 billion years, life has spread to practically […]

For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.

Instead of digging for metals, we could extract them from salty, subterranean water.

Creating an afterlife—or a simulation of one—would take vast amounts of energy. Some scientists think the best way to capture that energy is by building megastructures around stars.

Information may not seem like something physical, yet it has become a central concern for physicists. A wonderful new book explores the importance of the “dataome” for the physical, biological, and human worlds.