Hard Science

New research based on observational data from the Spitzer telescope provides clues as to how the universe first emerged from its dark age.

A new NASA report shakes up lunar geology.

A new genetic analysis reveals big differences between cultivated and wild tomatoes and domesticated, store-bought tomatoes.

A high-schooler’s dig experience writes a new chapter in T-Rex history.

Don’t start investing in flux capacitors just yet, though.

Few could match the famous physicist in his ability to communicate difficult-to-understand concepts in a simple and warm fashion.

The answer is surprisingly simple, if cataclysmic.

What if all planets were the same distance from Earth as the Moon?

Geologists may have spotted evidence of the beginning stages of a subduction zone, a process that drives the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates.

Light exists outside of time.

All life as we know it relies on carbon and water. But researchers speculate this doesn’t have to be the case.

A tiny grain found within a meteorite in Antarctica sheds light on how the solar system itself came to be.

Why the origin of the universe teaches us humility.

A space memorial company plans to launch the ashes of “Pikachu,” a well-loved Tabby, into space.

What do the inventions of the future look like?

The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

Psychopaths are manipulative, violent, impulsive, and lack empathy — but if psychopathy encourages more frequent reproduction, is it, then, an advantageous strategy?

A new method promises to capture an elusive dark world particle.

Famous inventors and scientists submission to the daily grind

He was a very good boy.

An innovation may lead to lifelike evolving machines.

The map shows the movements of seven different wolves over the course of a season.

A new experiment shows that two observers can experience divergent realities (if they go subatomic).

It’s often said that every element was made in a star, but there’s more to it than that.

There are places in our solar system where you can fly.

Doctors may be able to painlessly reshape cartilage with the technique.

Artistic depictions of the atom have deceived us all.