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The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.

It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.

In this preview from “The Saucerian,” author Gabriel McKee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.

Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.

Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?

Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.

Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.

While one may be helpful, the other may be harmful.

Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community’s best image ever.

Though difficult to watch, films like “Shoah” and “Life of Crime” cover topics that should not be ignored.

Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.

“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.” 

Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.

NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.

Wordle activates both the language and logic parts of our brain and give us a nice boost of dopamine, whether we win or lose.

If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.

Hubble showed us what our modern day Universe looks like. JWST’s big goal was to teach us how the Universe grew up. Here’s where we are now.

Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.

Binary black holes eventually inspiral and merge. That’s why the OJ 287 system is destined for the most energetic event in history.

Despite Betelgeuse’s recent faintening and brightening, I’d bet on these stars instead. Betelgeuse, a nearby red supergiant, will someday explode. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way should […]

If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?

Cotton mask fibers prove 33 percent more effective at blocking viruses in trials.

If it weren’t for a subatomic quantum rule, our Universe would be vastly different. In many ways, our views of the distant Universe are the closest things we’ll ever get […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently issued $8 million in follow-up funding to a team of neuroengineers developing brain-to-brain and brain-to-machine technology.

In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it’ll never be one again.

Yes, the Universe is expanding, but you might wonder, “How fast is it expanding?”

Alexandre Dumas’ famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.

Only 17 years after its discovery have we learned we’re safe from asteroid Apophis. Ever since its 2004 discovery, asteroid 99942 Apophis has threatened planet Earth. Asteroid Apophis has been measured […]