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A new report shows the marijuana industry is poised to have a major economic impact.

A huge landslide and tsunami no one witnessed may foreshadow many more to come in the aftermath of climate change.

While relationships can damage us, they can also be a source for healing.   

A new study suggests you should show “sportsmanship” instead of complaining about problems at work.

Yale psychologist Paul Bloom suggests a bit of reason in your feeling in his new book, Against Empathy.

A live-blog event of an incredible public lecture by a scientist on the inside of James Webb’s team. “The [James Webb] telescope is basically designed to answer the big questions in […]

With off-the-shelf materials and a little dry ice, you can discover particles that wouldn’t exist unless relativity were real. “The experiments that we will do with the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] […]

Journalist Eric Schlosser reports that the president isn’t actually the only American who can launch a nuclear attack all by himself or with one other person.

There’s an app that detects manterruptions—but we round up the research to find out which groups of people are really doing the most interrupting.

Are Macron and Le Pen re-enacting a centuries-old conflict?  

A yeast found in the gut micro biome of infants is implicated in the development of asthma.

If Scotty beams you up for a trip around the Sun, here’s how to handle it. “I really didn’t have to work, shall we say, with Star Trek. It was a […]

Stanford University is offering medical trainees a real-time virtual tour through heart defects. 

Churchill displays a surprising amount of knowledge on a question that we are still wrestling with. 

Sure, the old Greek guys from 2,400 years ago get all the glory. But these living philosophers have a ton to say about life, the universe, and everything as it relates to right now. 

Researchers find more evidence of the link between social media use by young adults and depression.

Don’t work with children or animals? Sir David Attenborough laughs in the face of danger.

Researchers plan on making human cells resistant to infection, radiation, and even cancer.   

Is there such a thing as boredom, or is it an all-encompassing term for a variety of root causes like apathy, frustration, or depression?

Natural “narrative selection” was key to turning insignificant apes (who had tools for 2 million years) into the species that now dominates the bio-sphere. 

The Tour is both the oldest and most popular of the world’s major cycling races. The Tour has been to Holland more often than it has been to Corsica.

We claim it’s the leftover glow from the Big Bang, but where is this light actually coming from? “We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we […]

You know what a black hole is, and we’ve found a few so far. But oh, are there ever so many more out there! “Black holes are the seductive dragons of […]

Earth is pretty much the limit of how large you can get and still be rocky. Anything much larger, and you’re a gas giant. “How vast those Orbs must be, and […]

And if you’re experiencing it consistently, you just might be doing it wrong all along. “I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over […]

DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense military research agency, whose work has resulted in staples of modern life such as the Internet and GPS systems, is now working with a […]

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Historian Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, on the dizzying ethical questions that surround what’s coming next – from superhuman cyborgs to algorithms that know us better than we know ourselves. 

Could there be a massive, giant planet beyond Neptune? Here’s what the science says… for now. “Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one […]

US scientists fearing for Earth’s climate future begin testing solar geoengineering. The consequences may be terrifying — which is exactly why we need these small-scale experiments.

When we think about a long-term solution to our energy needs, none of today’s options are this good. “I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would […]