Have you ever eaten a chocolate bar that was worth its weight in gold? If you lived in ancient Mesoamerica, you might have done it every day.

Half of all the antibiotics produced in the United States are given to animals to help them grow faster, should we stop this for the sake of our health?

Philosophers often get depicted like sages in ivory towers without a practical or human side. A gossip-filled book from the 3rd century can fix that.

Is God an old white guy with a majestic, flowing beard? A new study has a surprise for you.

The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them.

The West has been doing well scientifically for a few hundred years now, but it took almost a thousand years for it to catch up to the Middle East. Here are ten of the biggest discoveries the Islamic world got first.

If the universe is teeming with life, where is everybody? If this physicist is correct, they have one foot in their graves.