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If you said “with the Big Bang,” congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here’s what we’ve learned in all the time since.

The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was formed from proto-Earth getting a Mars-sized strike. An exoplanet system shows it’s plausible.

The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.

The risk of dying basically flattens after age 110.

Everyone loves a good origins story.

With such a vast Universe and raw ingredients that seem to be everywhere, could it really be possible that humanity is truly alone?

All forms of energy affect the expanding Universe. But if matter and radiation slow the expansion down, how does dark energy speed it up?

Did traditional Chinese thought pave the way for the philosophy of Maoism?

The best evidence for dark matter is astrophysical and indirect. Do new lensing observations point to ultra-light, wave-like dark matter?

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter recently captured images that could help scientists better under the mysterious physics of our Sun.

Without a solid understanding of the factors that affect the transfer of learning, the gulf between training and job performance is difficult to bridge.

Some scientists believe that DMT could revolutionize the treatment of depression.

More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.

For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?

An annular eclipse is coming to Earth on October 14, 2023. Six months later, a total solar eclipse is headed our way. Here’s the reason why.

We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.

Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.

Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.

As with any “big idea” progress means a lot of different things to different people and not everyone comes into the discussion with the same priors. Some experts are primarily focused on material progress while others emphasize the importance of moral progress. So to start the discussion, we asked each expert to define the term as they see it from their specific vantage point.

By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.

Think therapy is self-centered? Think again.

The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don’t physically exist. Is he right?

You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.

Is fasting the key to burning fat? It’s not that simple.

In Einstein’s relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.

“I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole?”

How the British obsession with tea triggered wars, led to bizarre espionage, and changed the world — many times.

The findings at L’Anse aux Meadows mark the the earliest known year by which human migration had encircled the planet.

A lot of research assumes happiness is measured by comfort and material conditions. For Aristotle, it is about being the best we can be.

There is no rule that will force Omicron or another COVID variant to become less deadly over time, but there is reason for hope.