Our ability to build machine intelligence has outrun our ability to understand it. Professor Alan Love, director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, thinks biology can help close that gap.

Today, the world's largest operating optical telescope is 10.4 meters in diameter. These 3 facilities will lead astronomy's next generation.

The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.

Getting sick shouldn’t cost you everything. In parts of West Africa, it no longer does. Muso has built a collaborative healthcare model that reaches patients within 24 hours, for free — and now governments are scaling it themselves.

With the National Solar Observatory's incredible DKIST, we see the Sun in the highest resolution ever. Its latest images blew us all away.

People whose jobs deal with actual emergencies are trained to slow down first. Here's how to borrow their strategies.

Few wavelengths of light reach Earth's surface; the others require going to space. What can the ultraviolet ASPERA space telescope do?

On a world map of lightning strikes, the world’s busiest sea routes glowed bright — until ships cleaned up their act.

Arthur Brooks studies happiness for a living, and he says the epidemic of depression and anxiety among young adults comes down to one culprit: a meaning crisis.

Between war, disease, environmental destruction, and resource overconsumption, our civilization's future is uncertain. Can science save us?

Jaleel White spent nine seasons as one of the most recognizable characters on television. Watching it back, he's realizing how much of that time he spent performing for everyone except himself.

As far as we can tell, there's no limit to how far it goes on; only a limit to how far we can see. Could the Universe truly be infinite?

A Cold War accident became a reliable tool for using artificial lights at night to map GDP, poverty, urban sprawl, and even illegal fishing.

When Mark Allen stopped chasing speed, he changed from an injury-prone contender into an Ironman champion.

The Earth is a massive planet, but doesn't form a truly perfect sphere. Here's how to understand our strongest and weakest gravity points.

Our brains are gambling addicts placing bets on what reality holds. And sometimes, they bet wrong.

We’ve been asking whether we have a purpose. Philosopher Alan Love says the better question is: what kind of purpose can we identify, document, and explain?

Neither Vannevar Bush's "Science: the Endless Frontier" nor OSTP's "Science: A New Golden Age" got it fully right. Here's what they missed.

Obviously, the gas giants all top this list. But the fall-off is rapid after that, and the final two spots in the top 10 are truly shocking.

Books to expand your perspective on history, philosophy, space exploration, and more this year.