Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.
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From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?
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Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
What we’ve learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
Scientists do not know what is causing the overabundance of the gas.
Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.
On Earth, microbial growth is common in lava tubes no matter the location and climate, whether it’s ice-volcano interactions in Iceland or hot, sand-floored lava tubes in Saudi Arabia.
By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
A 2020 study revived a longstanding controversy over Christopher Columbus’ claims of marauding cannibals in the Caribbean.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.
Is the vast “Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area” the final resting place of Genghis Khan?
Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
As far as we know, it’s only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
This might help you make it to the end of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?
Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.
Scientists across a range of disciplines have helped solve Darwin’s dilemma.
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
Cosmic inflation is the state that preceded and set up the hot Big Bang. Here’s what the Universe was like during that time period.
Asteroid collisions aren’t always bad.
It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.