Earlier this year, Nature co-sponsored a science-fiction essay competition. According to runner-up Miles Lizak’s science-fiction essay, an ideal research institution would foster curiosity and ...

The other day during a math lecture, I raised my hand, and I asked a question — a stupid one. It was one of those questions that you regretted as soon as the words came out of your mouth. In that ...

You know what they say — there are no stupid questions. Yet this saying has been proven wrong time and again. For example, what would you think about a question like ‘Who’d be the rudest animal?’ or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The internet has always thrived on stupid questions. Despite decades of asking them in online forums, on social media and to ...