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Forty percent of Americans get less than seven hours of sleep per night. But there's another key ingredient we're missing: dreams.
The non-lethal weapons lab of the military unveils a futuristic weapon that can create speech and heat out of thin air dozens of miles away.
Several things in nature go faster than the speed of light, without challenging general relativity.
Turns out that laws (already in action in 22 states) that don't allow violent people to own firearms actually lower homicides.
It's a dubious honor, but humanity has managed to amass a giant trash mass about twice the size of Texas, or three times the size of France, or about 1,600 miles.
A look at the United States gender gap in 2018 shows that no matter how it’s calculated, it’s still a problem.
We know that it’s ‘the red planet’ because of the iron in its soil. But why, with such a thin, carbon dioxide atmosphere, is the martian sky so red and bright? […]
After concerns over data security, Elon Musk has elected to remove his companies from Facebook entirely.
Stephen Hawking had pinned his hopes on ‘M-theory’ to fully explain the universe – here’s what it is
During the second string revolution, in 1995, physicists proposed that the five consistent string theories are actually only different faces of a unique theory.
Free-market fans often fail to see how self-interest can create diseased-market games. Robert Frank helps diagnose American healthcare's deadly trillion-dollar disease.
Researchers have known since 1997 that a massive patch of garbage has been swirling around in the Pacific Ocean. A new study shows that the patch has grown far faster than expected.
Always wanted to trip but don't want to risk brain damage? We might have a solution for you.
The report, released by "advisors to the wealthy," shows what the rich spend their investment money on. Hint: It's not factories.
Einstein didn't like the schools he went to, how would he improve them?
Before Hawking, black holes were just static points in the background of space. His greatest scientific legacy taught us just how dynamic they are. In 1915, Albert Einstein published his General […]
Today, we are in the golden age of meltdowns. More and more of our systems are in the danger zone, but our ability to manage them hasn’t quite caught up.
Scientists pick up signals from an explosion of electromagnetic energy that occurred when a black hole ripped apart a passing star.
Social media addiction may be on the rise. Surprisingly, there’s been very little research on it.
A questionable new study suggests green tea may be able to reduce the effect of Down syndrome on facial features.
In his first media appearances since the Cambridge Analytica story broke, Mark Zuckerberg spoke to several publications about how Facebook plans to protect user data going forward.