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Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.

Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.

Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.

Since 1957, the world's space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.

This might help you make it to the end of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic.

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.

You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.

Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.

While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.

The quadratic formula isn't just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.

“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.

By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.

Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”

Even with six months' notice, we can't stop an incoming asteroid.

Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?

Circle spoofing is an advanced form of GPS manipulation – but nobody knows exactly how, or why.

A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.

Time isn't the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.

It doesn’t have to be a science-fiction dream. For as long as human beings have been watching the night sky, we’ve dreamed of visiting other worlds and truly seeing what’s […]

Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.

Scientists should be cautious when expressing an opinion based on little more than speculation.

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

Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.

An astrophysicist proposes new designs for stellar engines that can move a solar system.

Non-avian dinosaurs were thought terrestrially bound, but newly unearthed fossils suggest they conquered prehistoric waters, too.

The opening lines of Smartmatic's $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News lay bare the culture of denial in the US.

'Kanal Istanbul' would create a second Bosporus – and immortalize its creator.

Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.

Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.