Spending between 120–300 minutes per week in nature shown to increase wellbeing.

A passenger on a California freeway shot a video of a Tesla driver dozing off at the wheel.

The war machine needs fuel, perhaps so much as to make protecting oil redundant.

Stems cells have always been pretty amazing.

An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.

Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius. While we’re all aware of his outstanding contributions to science, much of his brilliance is incomprehensible to us because it pertains to such an […]

The tactics that work now won't work for long.

By working together, and learning from one another, we can build better systems.

It’s not impossible according to physics, but we truly don’t know how this object came to exist. Out in the extremities of the distant Universe, the earliest quasars can be found. […]

Celebrity scientists like Donna Strickland are showing that science & faith co-exist just fine.

That's only counting revenues from taxes, fees, and licenses.

The periodic table was a lot simpler at the beginning of the universe.

Can dirt help us fight off stress? Groundbreaking new research shows how.

An ordained Lama in a Tibetan Buddhist lineage, Lama Rod grew up a queer, black male within the black Christian church in the American south. Navigating all of these intersecting, evolving identities has led him to a life's work based on compassion for self and others.

Has the mystery really been solved? Doubtful. The real science goes much deeper. For perhaps the last year or so, a small galaxy located not too far away has captivated the […]

Here's why generalists triumph over specialists in the new era of innovation.

A new paper suggests gun licensing laws could be curbing violence in two main ways.

Almost all experts agree that coding will become nearly as ubiquitous as literacy in the future. But the nature of coding in the future may be very different.

FDA guidelines say men can't donate blood if they've had sex with another man in the past 12 months.

The Tesla Motors CEO has plans for a James Bond-like car that drives on and under water.