You could adopt a few rescue rats that are retiring…

Some cosmologists believe a previous, cold dark empty universe like the one which lies in our far future could have been the source of our very own Big Bang...

For most of our evolutionary history, we did indeed live in Africa – but not just the eastern savannas, as previously thought...

That thing? It’s just a monster living in Microsoft’s basement. And it’s wearing someone’s face...

During the 1800s, Western culture morphed its distaste for olfaction into a belief that the human sense of smell was mediocre and superfluous...

If he obeyed a voice command – to sit, stay or roll over – I was supposed to scratch his head and say, “good dog”...

Many SETI scientists now agree with UFOers that the first alien detection plausibly could occur within our own solar system...

Improvisation was part of the technological expedition: a mule was responsible for the Danjon telescope while the astronomer lit a fire to make some smoke...

Does the universe have a beginning in time? If so, is it an argument for theism?

The Starship cabin is not ultimately intended for trips “under an hour,” but in fact for journeys of multiple months...

Just like the nuclear revolution, the possible ramifications of the quantum revolution reach far beyond the spheres of academia and may become instrumental in security and warfare...

The standard laws of physics — such as quantum theory, general relativity, even Newton’s laws — are formulated in terms of trajectories of objects and what happens to them given some initial conditions. But there are some phenomena in nature that you can’t quite capture in terms of trajectories...

To be frozen, and come back to life. It is fantastical. And yet, it seems to be true...

As the 1960s opened, the Order of the Dolphin was dismayed as it became clearer that the Milky Way was no cacophonous cloud of thinking stars...

We are living, at least in the West, in the days of the health religion. And whoever doubts it is a blasphemer...

We're in a dance with the tools we make and the technologies we create...

It was reported that platypus fur glows blue-green under UV light...

The animal that departed most from the fossil evidence was Dilophosaurus. In the movie, it takes the form of a golden retriever–sized creature with a rattling frill and venomous spit...