Across all wavelengths of light, the Sun is brighter than the Moon. Until we went to the highest energies and saw a gamma-ray surprise.

It's OK to hate a frigid pond.

“If you ask a computer, it will say, most of the time you want to either be raising or folding, right? You want to take an aggressive action or quit. I think this is a great metaphor for lots of things in real life, too.”

A neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a psychotherapist discuss how emotions are stories built from old experiences.

The Juno spacecraft, orbiting and imaging Jupiter since 2016, is still succeeding. Without a further extension, the mission now faces death.

The African Union argues that the Mercator projection distorts the continent, both in size and global attention.

In "That Book Is Dangerous," author Adam Szetela examines the rise of the “Sensitivity Era” in publishing and how outrage campaigns try to control what books authors can write and readers can read.

The predictions of evolutionary theorists and current advances in “multimodal AI” offer strong clues to the future of employment.

With several seemingly incompatible observations, cosmology faces many puzzles. Could early, supermassive stars be the unified solution?

A contemplative approach to leading others can help us accept the tension of not always knowing how things will play out.

What separates a disciplined life from a virtuous one? Psychologist Sarah Schnitker says the answer lies in your purpose.

As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.

Explanations for the cosmic speed limit often conflate mass with inertia.

“Nothing about human behavior makes sense except in the light of culture and in anthropology, and we need to understand the cultural component to our behaviors as well.”

The Universe isn't just expanding; the expansion is accelerating. If different methods yield incompatible results, is dark energy evolving?

In this excerpt from "The Story of CO2," Peter Brennan explains how changes in the Earth's ecosystem led to fire, which in turn led our ancestors to become the "fire apes."

When a tree becomes a swing.

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“The idea of evolution by natural selection is, for me, probably the most beautiful idea in biology.”

When you don't have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.