Respected Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose sees swirls of radioactivity in a sky map as evidence that the Big Bang isn’t true. These “Hawking rings” suggest to him that the universe expands and collapses over and over.

No international borders, no international order—and yet, most land borders are not very old: more than half were drawn after 1900.

The Universe is an enormous place, but we can’t see all the way back to the beginning. Here’s the latest record-breaker. No matter how far back we look in the […]

When it comes to optimizing your workout, breakfast might be winning again.

Throughout Europe, 92 percent of children speak multiple languages. In America, that number is 20 percent.

Success isn't about finding one great way to achieve something and sticking with it. It's about looking at all the possible options and computing success through analysis.

Jonathan Zittell Smith, the most influential scholar of religion of the past half-century, thought that religion "is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes."

In July of 2018, there were 11 wildfires occurring north of the Arctic Circle. That's more than ever before.

According to the study, for every extra day a student experienced sleep problems, they were 10% more likely to drop a course.

The ICARUS Initiative aims to track migratory animals from space using special transmitters and antennae. The data retrieved from the project will help us conserve biodiversity but has the potential to promote human well-being and prosperity, too.

Couples who had fish more than 8 times a menstrual cycle had a 47% shorter time getting pregnant than those who didn't, and had 22% more sex than those that didn't.

World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku thinks that one day a cancer diagnosis will be far less scary than it is today.

The ultimate fate of the universe is a mind-bogglingly thing to think about. So what’s the final outcome for it all?

The Universal Basic Income (UBI) movement has a major problem: nobody really knows how much it would cost to implement it.

A new survey of 1,021 Americans finds that we still have lots of questions and concerns about GMOs and that we don’t even really know when we’re consuming them.

Richard Feynman once asked a silly question. Two MIT students just answered it.

In General Relativity, even space and time themselves aren’t what they seem. Gravity might have been the first fundamental force ever discovered, but in many ways, it remains the least-well understood. […]

The cult of the startup founder and our reverence for entrepreneurialism shouldn’t excuse wrongdoing, says Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter John Carreyrou.

The Satanic Temple unveiled a statue of the occult idol Baphomet outside the Arkansas State Capitol building on Thursday to protest the Ten Commandments monument already on capitol grounds.

Accomplishments? Yes, Aretha Franklin had them.