The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.

The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God.

As improving biotech offers us longevity, we can prepare to live much better as we age.

In our Solar System, even the two brightest planets frequently align in our skies. But only rarely is it spectacularly visible from Earth.

Lonely humans will become infatuated with AI-fabricated personas.

Research shows that spending more time on social media is associated with body image issues in boys and young men.

Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.

Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.

If you’re a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren’t any neutrinos slow?

Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.

While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.

In a state of “hyperwar,” accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.

The body uses its own electricity to repair wounds. Faster healing may be possible with additional electrical stimulation.

Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.

Hint: They hold off on talking about their alien god until much later.

The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.

Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.

Stoicism is a big deal right now, but it has some major flaws. Here’s why you might want to hold off on becoming a Stoic.

JWST’s revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA’s Spitzer first, it wouldn’t have been possible.

It may be an advantage in some contexts.

Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.

A productivity expert explains how you can be creative and a powerhouse of productivity.

Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.

Would you want to live in any of these places?

The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.

Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.

Are you a video gaming master? Put it on your résumé.

A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.

Your brain on sex, love, and rejection with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.

Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?”