Science is not out there to kill people's faiths: Science is out there to make sense of the world we live in — and when science gets pitched against religion, everyone loses.
August 16, 2016

Tribalism is deeply ingrained in our value system — but we can commit to goals without radicalizing them, to support groups without demonizing others,
August 9, 2016

Even with all the uncertainty in the numbers, we seem to be marching towards a point of saturation, where our current practices and needs will exhaust what the planet can offer.
August 2, 2016

What would happen if the world's countries armed with nuclear weapons engaged in all-out confrontation? Marcelo considers this in the first of a series of essays on our collective future.
July 26, 2016

Juno's scientists will be the first ones to see things about Jupiter no one has ever seen before. For a few brief moments, they will share a silent bond with Galileo.
July 19, 2016

Imagine how sad it would be if we one day arrived at the end of knowledge — no new questions to explore, no boundaries to expand, no great discoveries ahead.
July 12, 2016

Even if chiral molecules are part of the ingredients of new planets, the choice of chirality could vary randomly from star-forming region to star-forming region.
July 5, 2016

There's nothing more interesting for a scientist than to have the unexpected show up, as if nature is trying to nudge us to look in a different direction, says Marcelo of new CERN data.
June 21, 2016

Fearing science is not the same as fearing what we are capable of: In the end, it's all really about us, what we can create and what we do with what we create.
June 14, 2016

We love aliens because they are a reflection of who we are, representing both the worst and the best in humanity.
June 7, 2016

How can we acquire an outsider's view of a system that we belong to without compromising what we see? As we confront such questions, we are like a fish in a bowl.
May 31, 2016

Life, for all its remarkable diversity, displays also a remarkable unity; it would be amazing if life as we don't know it is, after all, life as we do know it,
May 24, 2016

It's clear global warming is gradually changing our planet's climate and landscapes: The pace may not be exactly mirrored by predictions, but to expect that would be unrealistic.
May 17, 2016

People associate such feelings with the release of endorphins, but one recent study proposes different body-secreted chemicals, endocannabinoids, as the trigger.
May 3, 2016

The essence of a constructive dialogue between faith and science is to recognize that we are all in this together — and that our perplexity at being alive is one and the same.
April 26, 2016

Trying not to be very apocalyptic (but being so), a very big solar storm could disrupt the fabric of society as we know it: The danger exists and is palpable.
April 19, 2016

If you don't look with the right eyes, you don't see how pervasive and all-encompassing math is — it even engenders debate as to whether it goes beyond human invention.
April 12, 2016

Many people interpret the word "theory" as iffy knowledge, based on speculative thinking: It is used indiscriminately to indicate things we know and things we aren't sure about.
April 5, 2016

Even with the amazing steps of DeepMind in the game of Go, we can still sleep in peace for now while we find safeguards that will protect us from our own inventions.
March 29, 2016

There will always be that elusive part of reality that escapes us; it's not finding the final answer but wanting to know that makes us matter.
March 22, 2016