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Finland reveals that happiness is more about mindset than umbrella drinks and sun-warmed beaches.

Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.

America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.

1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.

If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]

Sometimes, new combinations of preexisting things revolutionize life.

With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.

Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.

The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.

The eclipse season is starting with a bang.

All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]

Interactive globe shows where your hometown was at various stages of Earth’s deep geological past.

Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?

It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

The rush to clean up outer space has begun.

Virtual tourism has thus far been a futuristic dream, but a world shaped by Covid-19 may be ready to accept it.

A new model of plate tectonics offers a chance to look back a billion years with new found accuracy.

Researchers devise an effective new predictive tool for maritime first-responders.

There are an estimated two trillion galaxies within the observable Universe. Most are already unreachable, and the situation only gets worse.

Phobos and Deimos only have two explanations, and neither one adds up.

The “overview effect,” experienced by astronauts when they view the Earth from outer space, irrevocably changes your perspective as a human.

A new study makes a compelling case for the origin of unexplained masses of underground rock causing changes to the Earth’s magnetic field.

Masks are great, but what happens when we try to throw out a billion masks at once?

Zircons in a Martian meteorite widens the possible timeframe for life on Mars.

“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”

To answer any physical question, you must ask the Universe itself. But what happens when the answers aren’t around anymore?

The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.

Sharks fear killer whales. How does this impact the ecosystems they share?

This is your brain on work.