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Outside Europe, much of the world followed an assortment of rules and understandings about what time meant.
Is the way we hear music biological or cultural?
With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model is now complete. Can we be sure there isn’t another generation of particles out there? The Universe, at a fundamental level, […]
Musk also said that "anonymous bot swarms" should be investigated.
Octopuses are known to rapidly change colors during sleep, but it's still unclear whether they dream like humans do.
Heinous, if proved accurate.
It would be the ultimate method for solving our pollution or hazardous/radioactive waste problems, but we’ll never do it. Here’s why. Imagine our planet as it was for the first 4.55 […]
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A new study shows that nearly 40 percent of Americans report being stressed out by U.S. politics.
Scientists find promising results in trial to reverse biological aging.
For Black Hole Week, NASA released a mesmerizing animation of what a black hole probably looks like.
Before the next big, dangerous, incoming rock arrives.
Bio-plastics could prove to be a suitable alternative to single-use plastics.
Maybe, but that probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. Of all the unsolved puzzles in the Universe, perhaps the most confounding is the dark matter problem. If we look […]
Our first “Ask a Scientist" feature is all about the ever-growing universe.
Scientists find that bursts of gamma rays may exceed the speed of light and cause time-reversibility.
Some say Islam is not a religion. Here's why all faiths should contest that.
A new study shows two potential benefits of undergoing a painful ritual.
But few critics actually addressed the science on climate change.
In 1919, Woodrow Wilson attempted to rally the U.S. behind the League of Nations. His failure suggested the way forward.