In “We Probably Aren’t Alone,” Sarah Scoles describes how Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 observation of apparent “channels” or “grooves” on Mars had led to a widespread belief that ...

I’m grateful for the warnings threaded through Stephanie Pappas’s “The Truth about Testosterone” and would like to elaborate from personal experience. As a transgender man, I adore the effects of ...

In “The Quantum Bubble That Could Destroy the Universe,” Matthew von Hippel discusses vacuum decay, in which a change in the Higgs field would create an expanding quantum bubble that would transform ...

“Dark Comets,” by Robin George Andrews, describes a group of objects in our solar system with “unexplained” acceleration. That made me wonder: Is it possible that while dark energy appears uniform ...

In “A Complex Diagnosis,” journalist Paul Marino writes about his experience with a type of complex motor stereotypy, a neurological condition that involves recurring involuntary movements. As I read ...