If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That's a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power "breakthrough."

How could we fight Alzheimer's with the body's own immunity?

Use words with plosives and affricates if you really want to make sure everyone knows you mean business.

Think via Bayes’ rule to become more rational and less brainwashed.

Leaving Hubble in the dust, JWST has officially seen a galaxy from just 320 million years after the Big Bang: at just 2.3% its current age.

The placebo effect is real. So are the ethical conundrums posed by those who would exploit the latest research advances for profit.

The prescription poop can correct life-threatening bacterial imbalances in the gut.

The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.

Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.

The insanity of the academic job market laid out in numbers.

Hawaii is the most isolated volcanic hot spot on Earth, far away from any plate boundary.

What do physicists actually mean when they talk about the multiverse?

The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there's a finite amount of it; what if we run out?

Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.

Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.

ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing.

Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.

Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.

We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.

Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.