With a little bit of knowledge and a few pieces of equipment you too can look at the night sky and see it as a cosmologist does.
A young Han Solo gets to duck from those dodgy blaster shots that mostly miss their mark in any Star Wars movie. How does that happen and what of the rest of the science in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
In this Speed Read, learn the difference between 3G, 4G and 5G, and why it matters.
Where you come down on the latest internet hullabaloo depends on how your brain fills in gaps in the sounds you hear.
It's time to stop the witch hunt on intuition.
Astronomers have indirectly spotted some of the first stars in the universe by making their most distant detection of oxygen in a galaxy that existed just 500m years after the Big Bang.
No amount of post-consumer recycling can recoup the waste generated before consumers purchase their devices.
Whether at a family gathering or in a research lab, getting access to images immediately was a game changer. And Land's innovations went far beyond the instant photo.
The work of Bertrand Russell, philosopher, social critic, mathematician and anti-war crusader, are still relevant today. Here's why fans should take in the Russell collection at McMaster University.
We could find evidence of life on Europa within a couple of decades.
It can be unpleasant to be mistaken for someone of a different gender. When an algorithm does it secretly, it's even more concerning – especially for transgender and gender-nonconforming people.
The 19th-century British anatomist Richard Owen downplayed the role of colonial contributors and largely ignored the importance of Aboriginal testimony and knowledge in describing the marsupial lion.
Flashy interceptor systems attract media and government attention. But bomb shelters and warning systems are at least as important in the midst of missile strikes.
Humans are the only ape that sings, but we're also the only ape that sings poorly. It's a lot easier to whistle.
Are online trolls as bad as we think? New research reveals that most online news comments contribute positively to the conversation.
Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data every day – so much that it will take years to uncover all the hidden signals buried in the archives.
Since Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece debuted in 1968, fictional stories of faulty or malevolent AI are legion. What have recent advances taught us and what might the future hold?
