Here’s a thought exercise that starts getting kind of gross the deeper you dive into it: what if the entire world’s…

I think parting the Red Sea is easier than getting a huge crowd of people at a festival to make way for an ambulance…

The world is urbanizing faster than ever, with over half of the planet’s population currently living in cities—more…

It’s actually hard to know what to believe about millennials, the Americans born after 1980 who make up the largest…

We know that cities will need to get taller and denser in the next few decades. Yet it’s not easy to convince…

Definitely don't try this at home (or if you happen across a volcanic vent), but if you've ever wondered what…

The development of micro-housing—apartments and other dwellings smaller than 300 square feet—is a growing trend in…

The news that Cadillac is moving its Detroit headquarters to New York City delivered quite a blow to Detroit's…

The twisting sidewalks and dizzying density of Brazil's favelas might deter most outsiders from navigating these…

By 2025, the biggest cities in the world will not only be bigger, but exceptionally denser. According to a new…

A new report from Smart Growth America suggests that the Southland isn't as sprawling as old clichés might suggest.

Early in Spike Jonze’s film Her, Joaquin Phoenix’s character gazes out his Los Angeles window. As the camera pans,…

East Asia is a crowded place. The crazy-cramped architecture of locales like Hong Kong gives you an idea. But this…

Really loving this demonstration of fluid density from Victoria, Canada's School-Based Weather Station Network.…

Filmmaker Casey Neistat shows a neat trick that can turn a shot full of water into a shot filled with whiskey all…

At first, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e didn't look all that impressive: just another large rocky planet circling its…

This one may be too easy, but I had forgotten how beautiful it can be. So, what is it? Stylized ornaments? Blowing…

A teaspoon of this stuff would weigh 100 million tons, and the only thing more dense is a black hole. Space is weird.

In twenty years, people will want homes that are half the size of today's mini-mansions, for half the price, a…

Physics researchers are hard at work making sure you can store those episodes of House on your hard drive for as…