Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very ...

Life is full of ups and downs, good and bad, struggles and triumphs — and the way we act in either situation define how we move through life. As people experience different things, they begin to see ...

Building blocks can be assembled much like lego to create molecules of life. Credit: Dr Anna Tanczos, Sci - Comm Studios., CC BY-SA Building blocks can be assembled much like lego to create molecules ...

Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...

Life rarely breaks you in a single moment. It wears you down gradually, through repetition, responsibility, expectation, and the silent pressure to keep going without ever pausing to ask how you are ...

First someone had to conceive the idea of maps, then someone had to conceive the identity of ecosystems, and then someone could map those ecosystems. This clearly acknowledges that all maps are not ...

At some point, many people realize they spend an exhausting amount of energy explaining themselves. Explaining their choices. Explaining their pace. Explaining why something feels right—or wrong. Not ...

I’m a scientific origins of life researcher and a psychoproctologist researching the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of absolutism. Folks don’t know what to make of that combo. What do the ...

Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and mantle we learn about in school, scientists are mapping strange, continent-sized structures that appear to shape everything from volcanic hotspots to the ...