The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
A Cambridge Ph.D. student has solved a grammatical problem that has befuddled Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC.
If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
For college students, it’s the early afternoon.
To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that we often don’t truly want to obtain what we think we desire.
2022 was a year full of scientific discoveries and the dawn of the JWST. But Hubble’s still going after 32 years. Here’s the amazing proof!
Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island’s pest population go extinct.
Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.
As far as we know, it’s only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
Our desire for recognition at work can lead us to perilous ends.
What you see is what you hear.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?
Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Nearshoring may be the manufacturing model of the future.
When organized effectively, peer mentoring programs can offer substantial benefits for organizations and their employees.
A concept known as “wave-particle duality” famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.
A vitamin that makes your body repellent to mosquitos sounds too good to be true, because it is.
