You probably don’t think once, let alone twice, about checking your email while waiting in line or backing up a file in the cloud. But from the transistor to the smartphone,…

Saturn was visible to our ancestors, but its rings weren’t seen until Galileo took a look. The rings are made from remnants of moons, asteroids, and comets. Now, we wonder why it…

Is Pluto a planet? Astronomers agreed in 2006 to rename it a “dwarf planet.” But planetary scientists disagree. They say its status as a planet should never have been changed.…

Small or large, in liquid or in gas, bubbles are crucial structures of the natural world. The study of how they form and what they do has led to amazing advances across different…

Transcendent experiences are moments where we feel a sense of deep connection with the world around us. They are sometimes accessed through near-death experiences (NDEs), drugs,…

Galileo was a philosopher, experimental physicist, and astronomer. Did you know he invented and sold a multi-function calculating device? He also cleverly used geometry to analyze…

As science learned more about Mars, it became an imagined realm of engineering feats made by a civilization perhaps advanced enough to attack and colonize Earth. Now humans are…