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With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.

Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.

In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020’s scorching climate data.

One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.

Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.

If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, leading to local or even global catastrophes. The strike that led to the […]

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.

Milgram’s experiment is rightly famous, but does it show what we think it does?

Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.

The Seychelles magpie-robin is up for sale – yes, for sale – as a digital nature collectible.

An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.

The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle. 

Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.

The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]

The two-year pilot program will be a test of harm reduction strategies.

The apes taught sign language didn’t understand what they were doing. They were merely “aping” their caretakers.

A revolution of the mind must occur in order for humanity to succeed on a finite planet.

Research from NASA reveals Mars’ spectacular volcanic past.

Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.

When we are more focused on the good things we enjoy in life, we have more to live for.

Was this a moment when humans interbred with Neanderthals?

A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”

There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.

In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.

Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.

Temporal lobe epilepsy seems to rewire a part of the brain that’s key to storing memories.

Life largely owes its existence to this equation. Be sure to hug your house plant today.

Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.

Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?

“To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action.” So wrote Francis Bacon, counsel to Queen Elizabeth I of England and key architect of the scientific method. In […]