Search Results

A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.

It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.

A new analysis suggests previous “total cost of ownership” studies overlooked key factors.

The aging brain is networked differently.

Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what’s the maximum lifetime for a star?

The first human that isn’t an Earthling could be in our lifetime.

If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? The far future stability of the Universe depends on it.

It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.

Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.

From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics’ biggest surprise.

2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.

Up until 2002, we thought that the heaviest stable element was bismuth: #83 on the periodic table. That’s absolutely no longer the case.

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

All stars, eventually, run out of fuel and die. Given all the stars we can see and the vast distance to them, are any of them already dead?

We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.

In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.

The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here’s how.

Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.

It was supposed to have a 5.5-10 year lifetime, and take 6 months to calibrate. It’s performing better than anyone anticipated.

The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé.

In the shadow of the Shard, the mosaics help paint a picture of Roman London.

How much can something change and still be the same thing?

EBT-101 is not the only candidate for an HIV cure. Stem cell transplants, medications, and other CRISPR therapies are being researched.

Ever since the Big Bang, cataclysmic events have released enormous amounts of energy. Here’s the greatest one ever witnessed.

Environmental progress is happening quickly but we must keep pushing for change.

We are still new at this.

A study involving nearly 2,000 people found links between personality traits and the likelihood of moving toward or away from dementia.

Futurist Ari Wallach asks, “how do we want to be remembered?”

It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.

He co-created one of TV’s funniest shows. He still felt like a failure in his 30s. This is comedian Neal Brennan’s story about conquering toxic self-talk.