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The young man died nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii.

It should be just as sticky (or non-sticky) as normal matter. Here’s how we know. Not only here on Earth, but everywhere in the Universe that we look, we find structures […]

Hubble’s still going strong after 31+ years. James Webb will never make it that long. Every decision that’s made — in both astronomy and in life — comes with its own set of pros and […]

An overfished planet needs a better solution. Fortunately, it’s coming.

This wide-ranging, 13-course electrical engineering training is your next power move.

A new study finds that starlet sea anemones have the unique ability to grow more tentacles when they’ve got more to eat.

Some volunteers performed above chance. They weren’t the psychics.

And what might we learn as we collect new, never-before-seen data? If you took one of history’s top scientists from 100 years ago and dropped them into today’s world, what […]

Agriculture is responsible for a quarter of greenhouse emissions, but who pays for these environmental costs?

Even physicists sometimes fall for these. For centuries, the laws of physics seemed completely deterministic. If you knew where every particle was, how fast it was moving, and what the forces […]

The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]

Princeton scientists find a new way to control nuclear fusion reactions.

Hawking radiation should really be happening, but black holes are farther from decaying than ever before. Black holes are, in many ways, the most extreme objects that will ever exist in […]

Demanding appropriate levels of skepticism and scrutiny isn’t cruelty, but rather demonstrates scientific integrity and intellectual honesty. Every few months, a novel headline will fly across the world, claiming to […]

If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]

Filaments, hundreds of millions of light-years long, were just caught spinning. In our own cosmic backyard, everything we see spins, rotates, and revolves in some fashion or other. Our planet […]

We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again. 

So far, 30 student teams have entered the Indy Autonomous Challenge, scheduled for October 2021.

How does one supernova get so bright, so energetic, and so massive? It’s a spectacular mystery to solve. On February 22, 2016, one of humanity’s automated sky-scanning telescopes — the Pan-STARRS Survey for […]

As time goes on, every galaxy beyond our local group will speed away from us faster and faster. And yet, more will keep appearing. The farther away a galaxy is […]

It happened 13.8 billion years ago, so why hasn’t the radiation all passed over us by now? For the past 13.8 billion years, our Universe has been expanding, cooling, and gravitating. […]

The drive would provide enough thrust for a spacecraft to travel near the speed of light using only electricity, says physicist Jim Woodward.

There were at least four major climate catastrophes that reshaped global religion. It could be happening again.

Through self-tracking and self-experimentation, we can greatly improve our cognitive capacity.

Nothing in the Universe can travel faster than the speed of light. So how does space itself do it? One of the fundamental rules we all learn in physics — set forth by […]

Using permanent magnets may help to make nuclear fusion reactors simpler and more affordable.

A generation ago, NASA launched their great observatories to explore the Universe. It’s time for round 2. Throughout the history of astronomy, every advance we’ve ever made has come about because […]

And can we devise an experiment to tell, even when we aren’t looking? One of the most bizarre aspects of quantum physics is that the fundamental entities that make up the […]

Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly.

An ancient Martian meteorite carries with it some compelling implications.