“Are we alone?” Quite possibly the biggest question posed by eusocial primates. The need to know encouraged our forebears to...
Living in a fishbowl isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Three squares a day, moody lighting, and a never-ending...
UPDATED: The new New Horizons images are out and they reveal Pluto has blue skies and red water ice! The...
In 1966 military sound engineer Frank Watlington heard something weird while recording underwater explosions. Whale song. Frank passed the recordings...
Unless you were captured by the Mole people and just recently released –I heard Molemaids are hot, bro!– you’ve probably...
Eighty years ago Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger put forward a now-famous thought experiment demonstrating the ‘absurdity’ of quantum physics. He...
Here’s a spectacular short clip of the Northern lights, as seen from the vantage point of the International Space Station....
Is it possible that the universe we appear to live in is a fake? An artificial reality, a simulation like,...
