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 ...

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 ...

Modern physics can explain everything from the spin of the tiniest particle to the behavior of entire galaxy clusters. But it can't explain life. There's simply no formula to explain the difference ...

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 ...

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 ...

This eclectic primer by Chakrabarty (A Guide to Academia), a biology professor at Louisiana State University, explores the science of evolution. The author expounds on three proposed explanations for ...

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 ...