We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research ...

A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape into space. Turbulent plasma and ...

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

Few writers have shaped modern imagination like H. G. Wells, whose visionary ideas helped define science fiction and predicted technologies far ahead of his time. His 1898 classic The War of the ...

Wherever you are reading this, look around you. Every living thing you can see – other people, pets, birds flying past, trees, flowers, mushrooms, fish – is here because of unions between different ...

Three years ago, during an expedition at the bottom of the Gulf of Alaska, a submarine detected a golden orb that contrasted with surrounding rocks. Its smooth, organic surface did not resemble that ...

In this playlist I show you how to understand set theory. I introduce sets as venn diagrams, mapping and as sets of numbers. With sets we look at how to find the union, compliment, and intersection of ...

The science fiction genre is rife with complex and interesting worlds to explore, alien warlords to battle, and cybernetic threats to evade. There's nothing quite like the adventures that come in the ...

There are films we watch, and then there are films we carry with us. Project Hail Mary belongs firmly to the latter. It hasn’t just found an audience; it has found a rare kind of emotional unanimity.

SINGAPORE – “We’ve been together for agak-agak four years, but I’m still waiting for him to ask me to BTO, really jialat.” Reading the above sentence and deciphering its meaning should be a piece of ...

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That observation, attributed to American physicist Richard Feynman, captures a tension many people feel when ...