In the past few days, we have seen several headlines claiming that an announcement is coming up that the SETI institute has ...

For most of our evolutionary history, human activity has been linked to daylight. Technology has liberated us from these ancient sleep-wake cycles, but there is evidence sunlight has left and continu ...

Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Robert Oppenheimer, Karl Schwarzschild, John Wheeler, Albert Einstein, Leonard Susskind – ...

Neutron stars aren't dark matter--we figured that out a while ago. But new research is telling us that they may be dark ...

The contagious nature of bacterial or viral infections like strep throat or influenza is well understood. You’re at risk of ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by ...

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the cor ...