The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.

Many have argued that free will is an illusion, but science does not support that.

Based on the atoms that they're made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here's why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.

Even some philosophers don’t think highly of philosophy, but we need it now more than ever.

If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.

Winner takes all, losers die, and participants have no choice but to play.

According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky's talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.

Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we're going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.

There's a big difference between the notions of 'false vacuum' and 'true vacuum' states. Here's why we don't want to live in the former.

We pretend to be in control, but we have frighteningly little knowledge upon which to base our life’s decisions.

How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]

Without these two elements, we’re doomed to fail. In this day and age, it’s virtually impossible to have sufficient expertise to figure out what the complete, comprehensive, scientifically validated truth surrounding […]

Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]

When you mix science with speculation, you get speculation. But the underlying science is still real. Whenever you hear the phrase, “it’s just a theory,” it should trigger alarm bells in […]

It could evolve, strengthen, decay, or not be alone. Our known Universe contains matter, radiation, and dark energy. While matter (both normal and dark) and radiation become less dense as […]

Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]

The raw ingredients just weren’t there. Thankfully, their predecessors were. Here on Earth, our planet practically overflows with life. After more than 4 billion years, life has spread to practically […]

If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]

Only the best physical theories outlast the minds that invented them. Throughout the 20th century, a number of discoveries revolutionized our Universe. The discovery of the interior structure of atoms as […]

Ignoring a scientific truth doesn’t change it, even when the consequences are deadly. “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?” Many of us, as children, […]