To the Greek philosopher, all of our actions ultimately aim at our own pleasure.
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It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
Valles Marineris is the Solar System’s grandest canyon, many times longer, wider, and deeper than the Grand Canyon. What scarred Mars so?
If you’re a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren’t any neutrinos slow?
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
Here on Earth, we commonly use terms like weight (in pounds) and mass (in kilograms) as though they’re interchangeable. They’re not.
Using a laboratory model, scientists get a nice Jovian surprise.
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 […]
Impressive but deadly physics underlie catastrophic eruptions.
Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.
Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?
A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
Multiple lines of evidence — physical, chemical, and biological — must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
In the largest star-forming region close to Earth, JWST found hundreds of planetary-mass objects. How do these free-floating planets form?
There were at least four major climate catastrophes that reshaped global religion. It could be happening again.
The Baltic nation rolls out an unlikely tourist attraction: 47 weird ice cream flavors.
They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.
The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]
Haters and disrespect aside, fruitcake is still a robust American tradition.
Massive objects like black holes, stars, and rogue planets routinely pass near our Solar System. An ensuing comet storm could destroy us.
Popular diets view health as a calorie-crunching equation while excluding a critical variable: mental wellness.
Digitized logbooks from the 1800s reveal a steep decline in strike rate for whalers.
If you forgot to defrost your turkey, definitely don’t put it in a deep fryer. Every year, households all across the United States face a troubling dilemma with no good solutions: […]
Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.
The simulation gave researchers some of the first concrete data linking climate change to human evolution and speciation.
The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.
Russia has long sought to erase the mere idea of Ukraine. But people like my grandmother, born in Druzhkivka, will not let Russia win.
In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020’s scorching climate data.