For all we know, the cosmos could truly be infinite in scale. But the observable part of our Universe? It's finite, and its size is known.

Psychologist Paul Bloom examines why loneliness feels like starvation, why people are drawn to behaving poorly, and why revenge feels righteous until it destroys everything.

We used to think the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before it, erasing everything that existed prior.

At "only" 25 meters in diameter, the Giant Magellan Telescope is the smallest of three current projects. That might make all the difference.

Being always available is costly. Here's how to reclaim your sharpest hours.

Miramax's explosive success with Pulp Fiction ignited an indie boom, rewrote Oscar campaigns, and blurred the line between independent cinema and the Hollywood mainstream.

What do the laws of physics, biological evolution, and your free will have in common? The same mathematical principle runs through all of them. Stephen Wolfram has spent 40 years finding it.

Using the newest large-scale structure data, a team of researchers announced a huge cosmic anisotropy in Nature. Too bad it's wrong.

Over 800,000 fireworks explode in under an hour in the world's largest fireworks shows. How do natural auroral displays compare in energy?

Steve Brusatte, the paleontologist behind Jurassic World's science and author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, walks through what fossils actually prove versus what Hollywood invented. 

Jamir Nazir says “The Serpent in the Grove” came from a childhood memory. The internet said it came from a machine.

65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, causing a mass extinction. Without advance warning, could anyone have spotted it?

Zena Hitz argues that the real philosophers are taxi drivers, office clerks, and prisoners: Everyday people who exist outside the cult of academia.

With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that makes for a lot of stars. But not as many as you'd think.

Throwing away the narratives that pull us down and make us unhappy.

The first one, NGC 1052-DF2, was mired in controversy. With four examples now, there only remains one possible escape. What does nature say?

A specific behavior might help explain the stereotype, recent research suggests.

A tombstone reveals the life story of a man who endured the brutal reality of Roman war and slavery.

Your inner monologue doesn't have to devolve into toxic "chatter."

Most ‘theories of everything’ make the universe feel smaller. Physicist Stephen Wolfram's does the opposite.