Science

It’s nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

From spaghettified convicts to doomed interplanetary liners, these space movies really pile on the misery.

Conventional wisdom is that waiting in a queue online or in a physical line involves a certain cost for people and organizations. Rational analysis has largely based its queue management predictions on remaining wait time, or how long someone has…

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than describe exactly where each particle is, describes…

Ionized clouds give the impression of flames surrounding the star AE Aurigae.

Over the last several decades, urban planners and municipalities have sought to identify and better manage the socioeconomic dynamics associated with rapid development in established neighborhoods. The term “gentrification” has been lingua franca for generations of urbanites who have seen…

China will work on establishing space-based data centers as a part of a larger five-year plan to expand the nation’s already significant presence in space.

Parents often tell their children to sound out the words as they are learning to read. It makes sense: Since they already know how to speak, the sound of a word might serve as a clue to its meaning.

Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing “war elephants.” Yet, no skeletal remains of these war elephants had ever been found from the Punic War period and region.…

What happened to Captain Benjamin Sisko? This episode won’t give you any answers, but it asks all the right questions.