Our great hope is that today's indirect, astrophysical evidence will someday lead to successful direct detection. What if that's impossible?

Just like animals, galaxies often have bizarre, unusual, or even unique properties. But finding many, all at once, really does raise alarms.

Ernst Stromer discovered Spinosaurus in Egypt. His fossils were destroyed in WWII, yet still shape how we imagine this mysterious dinosaur today.

Our view of the world, the Universe, and ourselves can change with just one glimpse of what's out there. It's happened many times before.

Reading isn’t just writing prep; together, reading and writing help writers think and generate original ideas through extended cognition.

"The process of systematizing, correcting errors, finding approximations, and making them work as civil systems that was what really drove me to start looking at human calculation and what was the foundation that it laid for the modern computer age."

Even in an expanding Universe, we expect both redshifted and blueshifted galaxies. But nearly every one we see is redshifted. Here's why.

Today, nostalgia is somewhat kitsch. Back then, it was something to be feared.

"It's this modern idea of doing voluntary discretionary, physical activity for the sake of health and fitness."

The Sun often produces solar flares and coronal mass ejections, but a rare solar radiation storm made the 2026's first great auroral show.

Many view the development of fringe, alternative theories as a useless waste of time. But when they can be tested, it shows what reality is.

A tour of the literary cover-ups, extraterrestrials, and cryptids lurking in the bookish backwoods.

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It's not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.

The VENUS survey isn't about planets at all, but about finding multiply-lensed supernovae. The ambition? To save the expanding Universe.

AI may be rewriting “how” we work — but not “why” we work. And this has profound implications for leadership.

Back in 1604, Johannes Kepler discovered the Milky Way's last naked-eye supernova. Here's how NASA's Chandra sees it over the 21st century.

Health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel says you don’t have to be obsessed to live a healthy life. Wellness can, and should, be something you enjoy.

Stoicism has been flattened into slogans about toughness, detachment, and emotional silence, a version that’s easy to sell, but mostly wrong.  Massimo Pigliucci returns Stoicism to its original purpose: a […]

Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.

Travel half the distance to your destination, and there's always another half to go. So how do you eventually arrive? That's Zeno's Paradox.

Astronomers have found starless gas clouds before, but Cloud 9 might be the most pristine one of all, with big lessons for cosmic history.

Scientists found a massive underwater wall off the coast of France that might help explain the origin of the legend of Ys.

Revisiting the year’s noteworthy nonfiction.

Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work.

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Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.

"Being connected to another person makes us feel safer and keeps our bodies at a kind of physiologic equilibrium that promotes health."

“How can all the diversity and, sort of, seeming order that's out there in the world emerge from a process dependent upon chance?”

Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.