The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla and his Tower. His vision of a global wireless-transmission tower proved to be his undoing.

New clues hint at how Researchers are sifting through symptoms to figure out what the virus does to the brain, by Laura Sanders

Why Did Humans Lose Their Fur? We are the naked apes of the world, having shed most of our body hair long ago. By Jason Daiey.

100 years ago few people claimed to fully understand Relativity, but it still managed to spark the publics imagination. By Dan Falk

Research shows the Y chromosome may escape extinction in the short term. But what if, in the future, we reproduce artificially?

Paleontologists seek the ancestors that could explain how bats became the only flying mammals. By Riley Black.

The Sun radiates far more gamma rays than expected, raising questions about its magnetic field and the possibility of exotic physics

Programming by Voice May Be the Next Frontier in Software Development. Your speech becomes your computer's commands.

This Physicist's Ideas of Time Will Blow Your Mind. Is time only in our head? By Ephrat Livni.

Comets Are More Dangerous Than We Thought. Could a comet, not an asteroid, have killed the dinosaurs? By Sean Raymond

Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars? Why a physicist believes our understanding of black holes is wrong. By Jesse Stone

Nigel Goldenfeld applied condensed matter physics to show evolution was blazingly fast for the earliest life and then slowed down.

Aging Is Reversible - at least in human cells and live mice. Study shows changes to gene activity that occur with age can be turned back.

Detailed images of the anti-aging enzyme telomerase are a drug designer's dream. By Richard Faragher.

Whether it actually is the most important meal of the day, the real emphasis seems to be on keeping weekday breakfast low-key.

If you want to supercharge learning and become smarter, the Feynman Technique might be the best way to learn absolutely anything.

How We'll Forget John Lennon. Our culture has two types of forgetting. By Kevin Berger.

Brain background noise may yield clues to persistent mysteries, giving insights into sleep, aging and more. By Elizabeth Landau

Theoretical physicist Andrei Linde may have the world's most expansive conception of what infinity looks like. By Alan Lightman

Scientists study how the gut microbiome can affect brain health. It may lead to better and easier brain disease treatment.

Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years. They accompanied the first people to set foot in the Americas.

Anti-nutrients - they're part of a normal diet and not as scary as they sound. By Jill Joyce.

The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior. Bertrand Russell's magnificent Nobel prize acceptance speech. By Maria Popova

How advances in bottling, fermenting and taste-testing are democratizing a once-opaque liquid. By Ben Panko

From Fortran to arXiv, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.