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Is it better to be the oldest sibling, the youngest, or in the middle?

Creativity and achievement require balancing hard work with the restful power of calm.

This company uses thousands of mirrors, AI, and machine learning to unlock the power of the sun.

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

They cost $1,400 and will make you feel like you’re always on a moving sidewalk.

Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what’s the maximum lifetime for a star?

A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.

Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.

The big-picture physics is simple – let gravity do its job.

Astronomers claim to have found structures so large, they shouldn’t exist. With such biased, incomplete observations, perhaps they don’t.

Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.

Should we be searching for life on other planets, or technology?

A toxicologist explains the impacts of antidepressants on fish — and no, they’re not getting any happier.

Scientists are solving the problem of costly energy storage.

Modern cosmology conjectures different possible fates for the Universe and thus for the end of time. Details depend on which model is right.

The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.

For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?

Everyone loves a good origins story.

There are two methods to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. The results do not agree with each other, and this is a big problem.

Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.

We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we’ll have thousands more.

“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.” 

Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.

Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?

There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.

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

Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.

The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?

We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.