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What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your ancestors—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.
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Reading code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
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Two new studies shed light on who first inhabited the islands, who replaced them first, and how few people lived there.
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The expansion of the universe is speeding up—contrary to what many physicists expected. A "heat death" is coming, but it's not what you think.
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The search for alien life is far too human-centric. Our flawed understanding of what life really is may be holding us back from important discoveries about the universe and ourselves.
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Planets can emit radio waves. For the first time, we've picked them up from outside the solar system.
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Is the quest to upload human consciousness and ditch our meat puppets the future—or is it fool's gold?
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The 2020 election cycle is not yet as wild as the 1876 election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president.
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Scientists find an exoplanet whose strange behavior may lead to the Solar's System hidden ninth planet.
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Carbon dating allows us to know exactly when ice was melted for drinking water in pre-Columbian America.
What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your ancestors—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.
