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We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
A heated debate is occurring at the University of Miami.
In 1931, Norway annexed part of Greenland. It could have been the start of a very Cold War indeed.
In 2025, Earth remains the only planet where life is known to exist. Without a second example, "The Stand" has a vital lesson to teach us.
From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
And can we run the grid of the future without AI?
With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.
Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA's Europa Clipper mission investigates.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it's changed our view of the Universe.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
AI can deliver a more equitable and prosperous future — if accompanied by ethical and responsible stewardship.
A new hypothesis accuses the simple sugar of wrecking energy metabolism.
"Time Warp" all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
From fearless quitting to redefined values, "Virtual Natives" are reinventing work culture.
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
Looking at our planet with post-Copernican eyes has the power to change how we relate to it and each other.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the "Codex Amiatinus," a Latin translation of the Bible.
Old coal mines can be converted into "gravity batteries" by retrofitting them with equipment that raises and lowers giant piles of sand.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
John Templeton Foundation
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.
In the West, discussions of 20th-century painting are dominated by Warhol and Picasso, but trendsetting artists are found everywhere.
In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.