science

An Australian dog was accepted to the editorial board of numerous scientific journals and asked to peer review papers.

It’s all in your mind. Really. Everything bad in the world might be coming from one particular part of the human brain.

NASA announces the details of its mission to the sun, set to launch in 2018.

NASA space probes discovered a protective barrier created by human communication technology.

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

Researchers find the drug least likely to send you to emergency room.

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?

Studies reveal the impact of strategic thinking on studying and other areas of life.

A new study questions why some people support “free speech”.

Physics finds no trace of God so far—but does it matter?

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?

A study finds an increasing number of Americans live with serious mental issues and their access to healthcare is getting worse.

A company plans to transform the world’s most arid region by bringing icebergs from Antarctica.

Scientists create a superfluid with negative mass that accelerates backwards.

Scientists find a surprising way to biodegrade plastic at an impressively fast rate.

Philosophers David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett argue over “philosophical zombies,” created to question the nature of human consciousness.

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

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.

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.

Elon Musk’s new company will use “neural lace” technology to link human brains with machines.

For our future’s sake, let’s demand government funding for ‘little science’, says Hertz fellow Avideh Zakhor.

Scientists discover unusual galaxies that raise questions about Einstein’s theory of gravity and the existence of dark matter.

America’s most popular conspiracy theories and the science behind them.

1.5 million children die each year from preventable diseases arising from poor sanitation systems. That’s why some of the world’s top scientists are working to make a 21st-century toilet without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and which costs users under $0.05 a day.

Albert Einstein shared his thoughts on the meaning of life and his own spiritual views.