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How to learn anything faster. As we get older, learning something new becomes more complex, tedious, and time-consuming than ever, and those child geniuses who can speak five different languages become our favourite dinnertime conversation, because how do…

Human auto-complete. Neuroscientists think they've finally figured out what our brain is doing when we finish someone's sentence for them - and it goes against our current understanding of how memory and language interact. Based on brain activity measurements…

Not a Death Star. Bizarre pictures coming out of Japan last week show what appears to be an oddly spherical cloud hovering over the city of Fujisawa, just south of Tokyo. According to reports from the photographer, the cloud started to lose its shape as soon…

Can Make Machines More Creative Despite nature’s bewildering complexity, the driving force behind it is incredibly simple. ‘Survival of the fittest’ is an uncomplicated but brutally effective optimization strategy that has allowed life to solve complex problems…

Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics. BY CALEB SCHARF ILLUSTRATION BY TIANHUA MAO NOVEMBER 17, 2016 Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke was being uncharacteristically unambitious. He once pointed out that any sufficiently advanced…

The young physicist’s quest to prove the theories of Ernst Mach. BY AMANDA GEFTER ILLUSTRATION BY JASU HU DECEMBER 1, 2016 When they met, Einstein wasn’t Einstein yet. He was just Albert Einstein, a kid, about 17, with a dark cloud of teenage angst and a…

NASA is certainly not in the business of spreading panic over asteroid strikes - every time one comes close, we see yet another press release telling us that all known 'potentially hazardous asteroids' have less than a 0.01 percent chance of impacting Earth…

When most people think about the hardest naturally occurring material on Earth, they think of diamonds - those pretty stones in our engagement rings that can cut steel and rock.

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Keeping women alive to further the spread. One of the most persistent mysteries in medical science is why certain infections appear to cause more severe symptoms in men than they do in women.  Men infected with tuberculosis are 1.5 times more likely to die…

@science Brace yourself, North America. Stay warm, guys: newly released NASA images show the brutal polar vortex that's descended upon North America this week, and is predicted to bring record low temperatures to the US and Canada. The data was captured by…

This is happening. Once 2016 comes to a close, the Arctic will have experienced its hottest year on record, and researchers have found that it’s now warming twice as fast as any other place on Earth. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

And how to survive. When we think about the prospect of an asteroid impact on Earth, it's easy to imagine the cataclysmic death and destruction that would result if a space rock smashed into a large city or urban area. But given that more than 70 percent of…

We're getting closer. Scientists working to make nuclear fusion a viable reality have smashed another record, after the Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) reactor in South Korea maintained 'high performance' plasma in a stable statefor…

A Barred Galaxy! In 1900, astronomer Joseph Lunt made a discovery: Peering through a telescope at Cape Town Observatory, the British-South African scientist spotted this beautiful sight in the southern constellation of Grus (The Crane): a barred spiral galaxy.…

Almost as hot as the surface of the Sun. A fast-flowing river of molten iron has been found surging under Alaska and Siberia, some 3,000 km (1,864 miles) below the surface - and it appears to be speeding up. This colossal jet stream, which is estimated to…

Gabriela Gonzalez: Gravity spy | Demis Hassabis: Mind crafter | Terry Hughes: Reef sentinel | Guus Velders: Cooling agent | Celina M. Turchi: Zika detective | Alexandra Elbakyan: Paper pirate | John Zhang: Fertility rebel | Kevin Esvelt: CRISPR cautionary…

Putting Einstein's special relativity to the test. After two decades of trying, physicists at CERN have reported the first ever measurement of the light emitted by an antimatter atom, revealing that antihydrogen is the exact mirror image of regular hydrogen.…