How did New York end up there?

Did you go to one of the 600+ science marches across the globe? Here’s why the cause matters. “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on […]

Amidst the recent discovery of super-Earth LHS 1140b – one of the "most exciting” exoplanets discovered in the last decade – a unique scientific crowdsourcing project is about to begin to further advance the search for new planets.

The Bella Bella Heiltsuk will use these findings in negotiations over their traditional lands.   

Someday an implant may help the neurologically impaired overcome a damaged memory.   

Philosophers David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett argue over “philosophical zombies,” created to question the nature of human consciousness.

On Earth Day, April 22, millions of people hit the streets of Washington, D.C., and cities worldwide to March for Science. People thought of puns and put them on signs. 

Three massive mergers threaten to put control of the world’s food in dangerously few hands.

This 25-minute learning technique is one of the simplest in the world. It's also one of the most effective, says professor of engineering Barbara Oakley.

Was it really a low-entropy state? And what does that mean for the second law of thermodynamics? “Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize […]

AI is short for more than just 'Artificial Intelligence'. At this crucial stage in its design, we have to decide whether we want it to merely serve us, or to challenge and augment our many selves.

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Lexicographer Kory Stamper on the slipperiness of language and how the sausage of dictionaries is made. 

Users don't need better media literacy to beat fake news. We need social media to be frank about its commercial interests.

A groundbreaking study from a Harvard University team suggests that monogamy may be genetically programmed within some mammals.

If it weren’t just the three space and one time dimensions, what would be different? “There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a […]

A religious person without a sense of humor? That's a dangerous combination.

The Repair Cafe movement was started in the Netherlands in 2009 to allow people to bring in their goods to be fixed by volunteers for free. There are now over 1200 Repair Cafes throughout the world. Should you start one?

And if you’re experiencing it consistently, you just might be doing it wrong all along. “I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over […]

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson releases an emotional video on the state of science in America.

If you want to know the state of equality in the US, statistics are a good place to start.