Hard Science

A new study discovers why whales grew to be the largest animals on our planet.

Scientists are going into old science books to see if there’s anything they’ve overlooked or can improve upon. 

A new study by planetary scientists proposes a giant new space object which could have formed the Earth and the moon.

High school junior Caitlin is worried. She wants to be a scientist but is struggling with it a little bit in school—is there hope for her career?

The Cassini-Huygens telescope has spent the better part of the last two decades finding out more about our galaxy than we could possibly dream of. Here’s 14 of the coolest things it has found out. 

How we remember time is vastly different to how we experience it, says neuroscientist Dean Buonomano.

Is our existence base reality—or are we pawns in a matrix? Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach explains how we might be able to tell.

Sam Harris talks with David Deutsch about how modern people are already living like astronauts.

A study on the strange Cold Spot in space may prove that we live in a multiverse.

Once we discover alien life out there, humanity will never be the same.

Is misinformation causing outbreaks of diseases long thought curable? A recent study found that just a simple “heads up” about fake news can help save thousands of lives. 

Research suggests that a religious edict from the Catholic Church shaped the evolution of the modern chicken.

From Abraham Lincoln’s founding of the National Academy of Sciences in 1863, to the US currently leading the world in the Nobel Prize count (a third of which we owe to immigrants), America was built on science. What happens when we doubt and defund it?

There are 400 breeds in total, including 23 distinct “clades” or types.   

Scientists create a superfluid with negative mass that accelerates backwards.

When it comes to time, and what the heck it actually is, there’s a clash of ideas between physics and neuroscience.

The Many Worlds Interpretation is just one of a few multiverse hypotheses—but is there a glaring paradox in this popular idea?

Life is a temporary, cosmic accident and the universe may very well be meaningless. That’s depressing — or is it?

NASA scientists discover what two places in the solar system might have favorable conditions for alien life.

Take a look down. Chances are, you’re looking at a lopsided tangle of bad technique.

A recent study suggests Ph.D. students are more likely to develop common psychiatric disorders.

The times in history when science was deadly and dangerous.

Will we ever have a Theory of Everything? Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss isn’t sure that’s the right question to be asking.

Since the March for Science was planned, it’s been mired in controversy from both supporters and those who think it’s politicized.

New research explains how to build different types of outposts in space.

You really do have to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em, and most of the time trusting your gut is a copout, says poker champion Liv Boeree.

Is it good science in practice or just a smokescreen?   

Get ready for a decade of scientific revelations. Thanks to gravity waves, we have a completely new way to explore the universe.

Methane gases from livestock production is contributing to the acceleration of global warming. Is a plant-based diet a smart way for individuals to curb the effects of climate change?

A 17-year-old British schoolboy spots an error in the data from International Space Station’s radiation sensors.