Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
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Rocks from two hundred million years ago show us how everything died and how nothing is new.
The father of all giant sea bugs was recently discovered off the coast of Java.
We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]
Using a laboratory model, scientists get a nice Jovian surprise.
In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
Personality is not set in stone. If you don’t like some aspect of it, you can work to change it — “fake it till you make it.”
How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!
According to international law, the seabed belongs to everyone.
The beauty of this magical medicine called silence is that it is available to all of us, even in cities, if only we care to listen.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
Was there ever life on Mars? Is there life on Mars now? Did it originate there or here, on Earth? All possibilities are fascinating.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.
A “seafood mafia” is plying the waters between India and Sri Lanka to satisfy China’s appetite for an increasingly rare delicacy.
Philosophers and scientists spent millennia arguing about the nature of light. It turned out to be stranger than anyone imagined.
65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
Civilization is facing an existential threat from climate change. Will we humans make it? Does anyone in the universe make it?
These enormous centipedes are straight out of science fiction.
An unexpected finding shows us how little we know about the early human story in our region.
Science can teach us so much about our planet, but something more must compel us to take care of it. If you want to understand our planet, the best way to […]
We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
Scientists discover burrows of giant predator worms that lived on the seafloor 20 million years ago.
Exceptionally high-quality videos allow scientists to formally introduce a remarkable new comb jelly.
Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.
It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.
For decades, researchers have proposed that climate change and human-caused environmental destruction led to demographic collapse on Easter Island. That’s probably false, according to new research.
The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.