Consciousness is everything we know, everything we experience. The mystery at the heart of consciousness lies in why our ...

(via TEDEd) You’re just one history final away from a relaxing spring break. But you still have so much to study! You decide ...

Data collected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is in conflict with predictions based on the hypothesis of dark matter ...

Earth's orbit is getting crowded with junk. And that's becoming a major problem. Starting with Sputnik I in 1957, humanity ...

AI is driving a transformation across all fields of science, from developing drugs for incurable diseases and improving the ...

In its prime, Cahokia was a prosperous city with a population similar to London’s. But this sprawling Native American ...

Earth's orbit is getting crowded with junk. And that's becoming a major problem.  Starting with Sputnik I in 1957, humanity has sent up nearly 17,000 satellites. Around 11,500 ...

The risks of alcohol and other drug consumption to the user are well known, but many Americans--nearly 160 million--say they’ve been harmed by someone else’s substance use, according to a ...

After severe heart failure, the ability of the heart to heal by forming new cells is very low. However, after receiving treatment with a supportive heart pump, the capacity of a damaged heart to ...

The search for the universe’s dark matter could end tomorrow — given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers for 90 years, since the realization that 85% ...

The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called nanofibers, have in medicine and industry. Nanofibers ...

(via PBS Space Time) Every good nerd knows that E=mc^2. Every great nerd knows that, really, E^2=m^2c^4+p^2c^2 Want to know what that even means? Sure, I’ll tell you, but today I’d like to invite you ...