ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing.

Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.

Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.

We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.

We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.

There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.

A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.

Albert Einstein played a mean violin.

The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.

De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.

In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.

This small phase 1 study suggests that CRISPR-engineered T cells are safe and potentially effective, but there is a long way to go.

Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.

Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.

Becoming less physically active as you get older is not inevitable.

Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.

A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn't even the worst-case scenario.

Between the instability of the real estate market and cryptocurrency fluctuations, everyone has been talking about bubbles. But what are they, really?

Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.

Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.