Carl Sagan was a huge influence on me, first through Cosmos. His idea was that knowledge does not exist in separate silos.

New research suggests many Americans who no longer affiliate with an organized religion may still believe in the supernatural ...

Young Ones turns a water-starved future into a brutal sci-fi Western, with Michael Shannon, a robotic mule, and a family ...

The Dutch tulip crash. How container shipping rewired global trade. Why every airport carpet looks like that. The Byzantine succession crisis nobody asked about. Ask them how their weekend was and you ...

We are getting close to Halloween, and it is always interesting to discuss something creepy. We have all had dreams where we felt like we were awake or wanted to shake off sleep and get up, but were ...

White dwarf stars, it turns out, come in a variety of hues. Says one astronomer: "Some of them genuinely surprised me." ...

Once again, I am solving the mathematics problems from Doshisha University, a prestigious private university in the Kansai ...

It is already late October, but I have selected 10 books from the "non-fiction" category and 10 books from the "fiction" ...

Researchers have demonstrated a way to operate five silicon-based qubits simultaneously through a single microwave control line, maintaining operation accuracy at or above 99.9%.

Austin Abrams is having a challenging year. After stumbling into this September’s Raccoon City outbreak, he’s now been ...