The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.
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Forget about alien nonsense. The Universe as it actually is doesn’t need any embellishments to be interesting. In our Solar System, the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and other masses are […]
Street names can cause diplomatic offence – and sometimes, that’s exactly why they’re there.
Among many others, Britain’s new Foreign Secretary has managed to offend the previous, current and future presidents of the U.S.
A few weeks ago Mayor of London Boris Johnson said some questionable things about IQ tests and the benefits of greed, income inequality and shaking boxes of cornflakes. Dorothy Bishop wrote an […]
Part 2 of the Q&A with Dr. Boris Behncke of Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania.
Part 1 of the Q&A from Dr. Boris Behncke of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania.
To kick off the second Eruptions Question & Answer feature, Dr. Boris Behncke of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology takes your questions on the many volcanoes of Italy – send them in!
Send me all the burning Italian volcano questions you have and maybe Dr. Boris Behncke will answer it!
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
It has been 50 years since an American has claimed the title of World Chess Champion. Will it ever happen again?
Modernism first moved on May 29, 1913. That’s century-old hyperbole, of course, but if any date achieves day of infamy status for modern art in the 20th century, it’s the […]
We know that diversity on corporate boards is good for business and good for the world, so what steps can we take to boost women’s representation on boards worldwide?
“The amount of interest is enormous,” says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. “People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this.”
Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the USA in the space race. Then one critical event changed everything.
These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.
“Upon emergence, these patients are sincerely unsure what was reality and what was a ‘dream.'”
Fixing chronic pain in the body may sometimes require a treatment focused on the brain.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
Autocrats like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin fear democracy, yet go to great lengths to present themselves as democratic leaders.
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
The combined intellectual heft of multiple “big thinkers” delivered arguably the most successful scientific theory in history.
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
As the Manhattan Project headed for completion, German attempts to build a nuclear weapon had already been dismantled.
A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology. But what does the science actually indicate?
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.