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.

We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.

There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.

A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.

Albert Einstein played a mean violin.

The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.

De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.

Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.

In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.

Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]