A biotech startup has received $15 million in funding to genetically recreate woolly mammoths and rewild them in Siberia.
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Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Greg Lopez discuss how Stoicism can help us gain perspective on our emotions and act with intention in the world.
The stars, planets, and many moons are extremely round. Why don’t they take other shapes?
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.
Finding out we’re not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here’s how we could do it.
Mindfulness may be especially useful for gaining more control of your impulses to spend.
This marks a historic moment in humanity’s relationship to the planet.
The dark genome makes up 98% of human DNA. Scientists are just beginning to understand its role in cognitive disorders.
Yes, the Universe is expanding, but if you’ve ever wondered, “How fast is it expanding,” the answer isn’t in terms of a speed at all.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.
Using a laboratory model, scientists get a nice Jovian surprise.
The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.
Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
Each December, the Geminid meteor shower puts on a show for skywatchers across Earth. With a new Moon at 2023’s peak, it’ll be outstanding!
To the Greek philosopher, all of our actions ultimately aim at our own pleasure.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
Out of the four rocky planets in our Solar System, only Earth presently has plate tectonics. But billions of years ago, Venus had them, too.
From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.
The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.
The Baltic nation rolls out an unlikely tourist attraction: 47 weird ice cream flavors.
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
Impressive but deadly physics underlie catastrophic eruptions.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.