Alan Burdick

A brand-new shape, explained.

Government regulators are increasingly thinking that in-game loot boxes look too much like gambling aimed at children.

Here's why a growing number of people are dead certain that Earth is flat. Can you handle the truth?

A new study found that nouns take longer to spit out than verbs do, maybe because they take more thought to produce.

There once was a 43-year-old arachnid who lived in a trapdoor burrow.

Recent fossil evidence captured an encounter between prehistoric humans and a fearsome animal.

A robot can now assemble an IKEA chair, flawlessly, in 20 minutes. Making it happen took years.

If ever a human being seemed capable of living forever, that human was Stephen Hawking.

Even as the sport’s top athletes compete for gold at the Winter Olympics, a scientific mystery remains unsolved.

It takes time to measure time. The Olympian challenge is to do it as fast as possible.

As the glaciers of the world thaw, one colorful group of microorganisms is thriving.

A fond farewell to the NASA mission that transformed our understanding of the solar system

In the past, catastrophic storms might strike without warning. Now we can track them in staggering detail.

A small wooden box, disgorged from a melting glacier, sheds light on life in the Alps 4,000 years ago.

Why does deception weigh so heavily on our minds? Psychologists may have an answer.

A recent study reveals the expletive power of cursing.

How many protesting scientists does it take to change the President's agenda?

An elusive five-foot-long clam reminds us that, in the living world, everything is a vessel for something else.

Spurious science journals are on the rise. Researchers invented a scientist to expose them.

What I think about every day at 4:27 A.M.