A Silicon Valley investor is spending millions on a publicity campaign aimed specifically at Elon Musk.

Former President Obama returned to public life today, indicating some topics he'll focus on during his post-presidency.

Bill Nye is the CEO of The Planetary Society, has his own Netflix show, flew on Air Force One with President Obama, and has at least six honorary doctorate degrees. But there's one thing that makes him prouder than all that combined.

Research on five million runners shows that working out with a friend pushes you harder and longer.

Personifying certain drugs as evil while calling opioid users “victims” points a glaring spotlight on drug policies that aren't really about public health.

How did New York end up there?

Did you go to one of the 600+ science marches across the globe? Here’s why the cause matters. “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on […]

Amidst the recent discovery of super-Earth LHS 1140b - one of the "most exciting” exoplanets discovered in the last decade - a unique scientific crowdsourcing project is about to begin to further advance the search for new planets.

The Bella Bella Heiltsuk will use these findings in negotiations over their traditional lands.   

Someday an implant may help the neurologically impaired overcome a damaged memory.   

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

On Earth Day, April 22, millions of people hit the streets of Washington, D.C., and cities worldwide to March for Science. People thought of puns and put them on signs. 

Three massive mergers threaten to put control of the world’s food in dangerously few hands.

This 25-minute learning technique is one of the simplest in the world. It's also one of the most effective, says professor of engineering Barbara Oakley.

Was it really a low-entropy state? And what does that mean for the second law of thermodynamics? “Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize […]

AI is short for more than just 'Artificial Intelligence'. At this crucial stage in its design, we have to decide whether we want it to merely serve us, or to challenge and augment our many selves.

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Lexicographer Kory Stamper on the slipperiness of language and how the sausage of dictionaries is made. 

Users don't need better media literacy to beat fake news. We need social media to be frank about its commercial interests.

A groundbreaking study from a Harvard University team suggests that monogamy may be genetically programmed within some mammals.

If it weren’t just the three space and one time dimensions, what would be different? “There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a […]