Christian Cotroneo is the social media editor at Treehugger. He is a founding editor at HuffPost Canada, and former writer at The Dodo and Toronto Star. The universe may seem like an impossibly ...

Amazon just took a big step forward with its support for Matter, finally enabling Alexa to handle Matter devices over Thread as well as Wi-Fi. In addition to adding Matter over Thread support, the ...

Most matter in the universe cannot be seen — but its influence on the largest structures in space can. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Recent stories about flags at the residence and vacation home of Justice Alito and his family remind me of something broader I'd been meaning to blog about: It's depressing, in our era of polarized ...

Ever since its discovery, dark matter has remained invisible to scientists, despite the launch of multiple ultra-sensitive particle detector experiments around the world over several decades. Now, ...

Dark matter may be invisible, but scientists are getting closer to understanding whether it follows the same rules as everything we can see. By comparing how galaxies move through cosmic gravity wells ...

My last post was on the merits of the common saying, “It is what it is." The popularity of that post left me wanting to expound upon another saying that is heard frequently, “it doesn’t matter." Often ...

A model of exotic dark matter suggests that the first stars may have formed not as individuals, but as tiny pockets embedded in gigantic, pancake-like sheets. This would have led to the formation of ...