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Concluding that Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.

Since dark matter eludes detection, the mission will target sources of light that are sensitive to it.

Our impulse to seek out agreement is stifling us, says world debate champion Bo Seo.

Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?

The insanity of the academic job market laid out in numbers.

De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.

"Tristram Shandy" trolled its way to fame.

Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman debunks the ‘10,000 steps per day’ myth.

Astronomers have been looking for radio waves sent by a distant civilization for more than 60 years.

Debates about the existence of free will traditionally have been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don’t because they believe the Universe […]

Who doesn't love a little existential fear every once in a while?

"Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics."

Economist Tyler Cowen says there are good reasons to be crypto-skeptical.

More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history's most interesting experiments in commodity money.

Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.

Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.

On New Year's Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?

We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.

Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.

Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.

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

For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.

The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of "otherness." We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.

"Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications." —Tony Blair

A marine scientist explains the threat of the Loop Current, a 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.

An analogy explains the greater fool theory: You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away; you just have to run faster than the other guy.

There are almost no standards governing the cannabis industry. Your favorite weed strain may contain unpleasant surprises.

The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.

In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.

A small percentage of people who consume psychedelics experience strange lingering effects, sometimes years after they took the drug.