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More massive is bigger, less massive is smaller, right? That’s not even half the story. “Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced […]

The atoms, planets, stars, and even galaxies aren’t expanding, even though space is. How come? This article was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity […]

The popular concept of introversion often differs from how psychologists define the term, but a new model seeks to clarify exactly what being an introvert means.

Illinois passed a bill that could abolish AT&T’s obligation to provide the state’s citizens with landline telephone services.

There’s a point beyond which we cannot go, there are things beyond that we cannot know. But here’s what we expect. “The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it […]

Consider the real meaning of nirvana next time you face a crisis.   

There are four main traits of temperament and two subsets of each. Which are you?   

Will Smith defends entry of non-theatrical Netflix movies at Cannes.

A new extension suggests that you follow people you don’t agree with. Will this help pop your bubble? 

With liquid water, an energy source, and the perfect raw ingredients, Enceladus might be the holy grail we’ve been seeking. This article is written by contributing author Jesse Shanahan. Jesse is […]

If every infinite outcome were equally likely, we’d never come to be. “Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.” –Ludwig […]

First of its kind study compares the effects of eating between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. and eating between noon and 11 p.m.

“Atheist churches” are popping up across the US and Europe. Is it just a trend?   

Mathematics professor Po-Shen Loh has created Expii, a free education tool that democratizes learning by turning your smartphone into a tutor.

If it was good enough for more than 75 years, why not once again? “The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be […]

Risks abound for those plucky few willing to put their lives on the line to populate the Red Planet.   

Studying philosophy has had a major impact on the power players of Silicon Valley.

Think the periodic table is complicated? Now learn how each element in it was created. “It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order […]

Here are two cutting-edge neuroscience technologies that may enable us to treat conditions like blindness, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.

Research on five million runners shows that working out with a friend pushes you harder and longer.

Never heard of SKA, the square kilometer array? Once it starts taking data, you’ll never forget it. “Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for […]

The theory could solve certain stubborn physics questions such as, where’s all the antimatter.

It may be the only way to save the USA — and the world — from alternative facts. “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.” –Ernest Rutherford There […]

Scientists successfully test an ingenious system for growing premature fetuses.

The answer lies billions of years in the past. “Dark matter or invisible element?You decide.” –Toba Beta When we look out at the luminous matter in the Universe — stars, galaxies, clusters of […]

The science of selflessness.

Your theory predicts something novel? How nice. But no one will pay you any mind unless you test it. “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards […]

Was it really a low-entropy state? And what does that mean for the second law of thermodynamics? “Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize […]

A cataclysmic event in our past may have led to this situation.   

Journalists were once outsiders looking in, says Gay Talese, but today their proximity to Washington makes them myopic; they’d be wiser to disperse and keep their eyes on the horizon.