In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

It’s thin and tall and almost never comes out by the root. Instead, it breaks off just below the soil surface and releases a ...

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

Quantum effects like superposition and entanglement have long been seen in single particles, but physicists are on a quest to find out just how big an object can be before it loses its quantumness ...

Scientists in Korea achieved the first experimental realization of bound states in the continuum in a single resonator, ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to the discovery of phenomena like superposition and entanglement – and today’s ...

For many of us, time slips through our fingers like sand. It’s an elusive commodity we can’t buy back but desperately seek to manage. Even before the buzz of digital calendars and the ping of ...

Inequality has been linked to human sustainability for over 10,000 years, according to new findings by archaeologists.

Psychological time is not clock time. How people in different parts of the world divide up the minutes in an hour may explain cultural differences in punctuality.

Former blackhat hacker reveals personal stories about restraint in cyber attacks and the moral evolution that led to understanding real-world consequences.

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.