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It’s not just about SpaceX and Starlink. What we’re deciding today will have a global impact for years and decades to come. For countless millennia, human beings have gazed up into […]
Remaining silent is being complicit.
On Friday, the moon will pass through the Earth's outer shadow, known as the penumbra.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
To find the optimal route between many different locations, we need the power of quantum computers.
A 12-year long study examines the differences between how same-sex and different-sex couples argue, with some surprising results.
How to manage your time so you can actually accomplish what you want to.
Numerous U.S. Presidents invoked the Insurrection Act to to quell race and labor riots.
It looks like a busy hurricane season ahead. Probably.
Got any embarrassing old posts collecting dust on your profile? Facebook wants to help you delete them.
Researchers from Japan add a new wrinkle to a popular theory and set the stage for the formation of monstrous black holes.
The inequalities impact everything from education to health.
Think they all burn through their fuel, die, and leave white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes behind? Think again. The day will come when our Sun, like most stars, can […]
That's not frankincense you smell at the "holy of the holies."
Just before I turned 60, I discovered that sharing my story by drawing could be an effective way to both alleviate my symptoms and combat that stigma.
The double-slit experiment, all these years later, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics. When we divide up matter into the smallest possible chunks that it’s made […]
A joint study by two England universities explores the link between sex and cognitive function with some surprising differences in male and female outcomes in old age.
Mathematicians studied 100 billion tweets to help computer algorithms better understand our colloquial digital communication.
With the coronavirus pandemic upending summer plans, now's the perfect time to learn something new.
In order, they go: hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, neon, nitrogen, magnesium, silicon, iron, sulfur. Here’s how we made them. Everything found on planet Earth is composed of the same ingredients: atoms. […]