Science

Higgs boson: the tiny particle that could (destroy the universe).

Humans started digging up dinosaur bones on purpose in 1822; 150 years later, we asked “where are the little one?” What was the hold up?

Why do so many sci-fi aliens come from Mars? Because Italian is tricky.

Alan Turing’s eponymous Turing machine presaged the digital computer—and his Turing test presaged the rise of artificial intelligence that will eventually make us all obsolete.