A "forbidden research" conference at MIT tackles areas of science constrained by ethical, cultural and institutional restrictions. 

Meet the Cornell scientist who figured out the link between fracking disposal wells and Oklahoma’s earthquakes.

An incredible story, the current controversy, and the hope for the future. Our Universe was born pristine, with no stars, galaxies, molecules or even stable atoms, some 13.8 billion years […]

Loop quantum gravity gets the ancient atomist back into the loop, showing how black holes might explode, and that the Big Bang might be a Big Bounce.   

If Scotty beams you up for a trip around the Sun, here’s how to handle it. “I really didn’t have to work, shall we say, with Star Trek. It was a […]

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds the world’s largest collection of seeds, for safekeeping.

There's a new verb in town: cognify. We have far too much baggage with the word 'intelligence' so to fully embrace the second industrial revolution we need to start talking about artificial cognification.

In comedy there is always the temptation to go for the easy jokes – but now, more than ever, comedians have to challenge themselves.

Here are two cutting-edge neuroscience technologies that may enable us to treat conditions like blindness, epilepsy and Alzheimer's.

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Historian Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, on the dizzying ethical questions that surround what's coming next – from superhuman cyborgs to algorithms that know us better than we know ourselves. 

There are many scientific explanations for ghost sightings. This is the first ever to involve CERN.   

What if we told you that, right now, your phone was making a map of your interior surroundings — whether you're at work or at home — and sending that data to places unknown?

Hydrogen is #1, Helium is #2. Who’s number 3? Hint: it’s not #3 in the periodic table! “It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign […]

Scientists release observation data from 1,600 stars in hopes the public can help find planets that orbit stars outside our solar system.

What if the vision wasn't just to have politicians who are science literate, but actual scientists running the joint – would it be any better than it is now?

Pluripotent stems cells might be the key to creating reliable lab-grown meat. 

Author Tony Dokoupil predicts a Liberal backlash against grass now that it’s becoming legal.

Prime minister or postal worker: if you've been condemned for corruption in France, you're on this map

Ritualized killings once took place in many societies and in most regions around the globe.   

Earth is pretty much the limit of how large you can get and still be rocky. Anything much larger, and you’re a gas giant. “How vast those Orbs must be, and […]