Are humans alone in the universe? The answer is more complicated than science fiction might suggest. Scientists have discovered billions upon billions of potentially habitable planets. But if life is ...

The Saudi-funded league is reportedly on the verge of losing its funding and possibly shutting down. Bob Harig explores what LIV now faces and answers key questions about its future. Widespread ...

An impossible object is something that looks realistic when drawn but can’t exist in real life. Dutch artist M. C. Escher is famous for depicting, for instance, staircases and waterfalls that are ...

I grew up in a faithful Methodist household in deep-red Texas during the George W. Bush years, when the political sway of evangelicals was at its zenith. At the same time, evangelists of a robust ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Universal History Archive / Getty. The problem with horses—one of the problems with horses, I say as a former horse girl—is that they are as stubborn as mules.

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Imagine you’re tasked with analyzing two datasets—one containing a list of products and another with customer segments. How do you uncover every possible pairing to identify untapped opportunities?