James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

There are few ideas in science that capture the imagination quite like the search for extraterrestrial life. From Mars missions and exoplanet surveys to SETI's decades-long hunt for signals, ...

How the same region of the Universe would look in terms of the amount of stars for different values of the dark energy density. Clockwise, from top left, no dark energy, same dark energy density as in ...

Similarly, humanity’s technological “muscles” are exploding, but the “prefrontal cortex”—institutions and ethics to control ...