It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.

A concept known as "wave-particle duality" famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.

Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.

A vitamin that makes your body repellent to mosquitos sounds too good to be true, because it is.

A real-life nightmare.

Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.

Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the "orbital perspective."

What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.

Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?

The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.

If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That's a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power "breakthrough."

How could we fight Alzheimer's with the body's own immunity?

Use words with plosives and affricates if you really want to make sure everyone knows you mean business.

Think via Bayes’ rule to become more rational and less brainwashed.

Leaving Hubble in the dust, JWST has officially seen a galaxy from just 320 million years after the Big Bang: at just 2.3% its current age.

The placebo effect is real. So are the ethical conundrums posed by those who would exploit the latest research advances for profit.

The prescription poop can correct life-threatening bacterial imbalances in the gut.

The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.

Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.

The insanity of the academic job market laid out in numbers.

Hawaii is the most isolated volcanic hot spot on Earth, far away from any plate boundary.

What do physicists actually mean when they talk about the multiverse?

The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there's a finite amount of it; what if we run out?

Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.

Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.

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.

Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.