How special is Earth? It's one of those questions that runs through all of science, and here's a version of it most people have neve...

The war on artificial intelligence is no longer just online arguments and complaints about data centers. Something has shifted, and law enfo...

Neuroscientists have long assumed that when a brain region becomes more active, more blood flows to it. That assumption is the entire basis ...

The dumber you are, the more certain you are that you aren't. That's the Dunning-Kruger effect, and it's been used to explain ev...

A worker at a US government lab got bitten by a monkey carrying a deadly virus, and it turned out nobody knew what to do about it. Around th...

One answer to the Fermi Paradox is that advanced civilizations develop AI and lose interest in space travel. A researcher now argues that...

Over the years, physicists have become increasingly enamored with “quantum weirdness,” the many strange features of quantum mechanics that a...

A physicist built a mini-universe out of cold atoms and used it to test where time comes from. It made big headlines a few weeks ago, and I...

Putin's former thesis advisor is convinced that oil never runs out, and Russia is now drilling 8 kilometres into the ground to prove him...

Everywhere, it turns out, is warming faster than the rest of the world. Every region, every country, all of them, faster than the rest. You ...

In today's video I talk about some commonly misunderstood points in the double slit experiment.

A federal judge in the US has allowed a whistleblower lawsuit to go forward, in which a former official of the National Institutes of Health...

In Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity is always attractive. But according to a new paper, quantum mechanics offers a looph...

For over half a century, people taking the psychedelic drug DMT have reported meeting alien beings. Now a scientist says these aliens might ...

About 25 years ago, astrophysicists noticed that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. To account for this observation, physicists came ...

The electric car revolution was supposed to be inevitable. But over the past six months it's begun to look shaky. The clearest warning s...

You might think that black holes suck in light without letting it escape, but they actually concentrate light in the photon sphere which sur...

One of the biggest limitations of quantum quantum computing is the “no cloning” theorem, which says you cannot copy a quantum state without ...

A new, computer-based calculation shows that our solar system used to have 5 or 6, rather than 4 gas giants. It seems that, billions of year...

Recently, a pair of researchers made a massive breakthrough in the foundations of physics. In their paper, they describe how gravity is an e...