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Scientists use tripping rats to show that LSD disrupts communication between two key brain regions.

Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?

At 35 light-years away, it’s also the 2nd coolest, 2nd widest planet ever found. Despite discovering more than 4000 exoplanets, most remain obscure. Although more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets are known, […]

Much like computing technology, the Great Red Spot has been getting smaller and faster over the last few years.

The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.

What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?

In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.

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

The metaverse has the potential to be revolutionary, for both good and bad. Here is how we can maximize the former and prevent the latter.

Anxiety can be good or bad. It turns out that it’s really up to you.

The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.

Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news — but also some bright spots.

Business advisor Michael C. Fillios has developed a repeatable playbook for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to add value from technology.

There’s a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.

NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.

In 2022, the probe will crash into an asteroid while a nearby satellite captures it on camera.

A Harvard professor’s study discovers the worst year to be alive.

Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.

The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.

The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?

Physics demands that it couldn’t be any other way. Here’s why. Ask anyone — even someone with no background in science — to name something that Einstein did, and odds are they’ll come back with […]

Air conditioning may keep a room cool, but using it is heating up the planet. It is time for something new — or old.

Einstein’s relativity teaches us that time isn’t absolute, but passes relatively for everyone. So how do telescopes see back through time?

Singapore is a breeding ground of truly green buildings.

Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]

Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.

From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.

When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.

Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?

This is a time for family and friends to gather, watch the full moon and eat mooncakes and other delicacies.