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Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.

The four-color theorem was one of the past century's most popular and enduring mathematical mysteries.

At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?

Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.

Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?

The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.

By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.

A classical equivalent to Chanel No. 5.

In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can't there be an "antigravity" force?

Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.

If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.

What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.

Your organization won’t become a “data democracy” organically — shared knowledge is key.

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter recently captured images that could help scientists better under the mysterious physics of our Sun.

From "Thompson's violinist" to the "Experience Machine," these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.

Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.

Paintings played an important role in these ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, pigment is not nearly as durable as marble.

What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?

Branding isn’t buzz — we’ve been doing it for thousands of years.

This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.

A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).

Like witchcraft, "racecraft" refers to a kind of magical thinking — one that treats race as if it were scientifically meaningful.

The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.

Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?

Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, finding a bland, featureless world. Now, in 2023, JWST's sights are similar. There's a reason for that.

Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.

A medical entomologist points to metabolism, body odor, and mindset.

Most of us have heard that the Sun is an ordinary, typical, unremarkable star. But science shows we're actually anything but average.

In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”