Now we know, on every scale. “There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without […]

The theory could solve certain stubborn physics questions such as, where’s all the antimatter.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is working in with video game developers to create a space exploration game called Space Odyssey.

In the glamor-filled world of drag queens, fashion and "ethical self-fashioning" might be closer than we think. 

A popular physicist shares why he believes that the deepest nature of reality is hidden from us.

A comprehensive new study finds that lefties are, in fact, better at advanced math.

Bennett Singer explains why coming out matters—for the LGBTQ community and the straight community alike, and especially for those who are not in a safe position to do so.

With the launch of JPSS-1 coming up this year, everything that NASA Earth science stands for hinges on its success. “There is, then, no water that is wholly of the Pacific, […]

You have to be a little envious of those who have faith—they have a motivational force behind them that is near impossible to beat. What if there was a secular equivalent, wonders philosophy professor Sam Newlands.

Can you imagine owning nothing and having everything? Kevin Kelly has a either a startling window into the future or an idea that will make your head spin.

The children of very young and very old fathers were most affected.   

Elon Musk publishes a visionary paper on his company's plans to colonize space.

Never heard of SKA, the square kilometer array? Once it starts taking data, you’ll never forget it. “Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for […]

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto just took one giant leap forward in his nation's drug policies.

Goal setting is a hamster wheel, says Adam Alter. If you want to channel your best work and get off the failure circuit, set systems instead.

Polymaths are people who have excelled in diverse pursuits, and several of those polymaths left us with some very practical advice on how to succeed.

Achieving liquid light at room temperature will boost research into quantum hydrodynamics.   

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have connected inattention and giving up on your dreams. 

Smoking reflects a deep divide in American society.

Instead of viewing racism as a moral failure, Racists Anonymous treats it like a disease from which everyone suffers.