Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
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How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
Many suspicious deaths of both humans and pets have been solved with the help of insects.
Really simple interventions can greatly reduce indoor temperatures during the summer, particularly in places like the Pacific Northwest.
Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
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Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
This is a time for family and friends to gather, watch the full moon and eat mooncakes and other delicacies.
It’s perhaps never been harder to resist the urge to overspend.
Carbon dating allows us to know exactly when ice was melted for drinking water in pre-Columbian America.
On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?
In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Though these ancient settlers of China were culturally cosmopolitan, their DNA turns out to have been completely distinct from the communities with which they interacted.
Scientists have long puzzled over how Mars, a cold and dry planet, was once warm enough to support liquid water.
The search for worlds outside our solar system has just turned up a planet, TOI-2257 b, with a truly extreme orbit.
A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?
Because there’s not enough Walden pond to go around.
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?