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This is especially true for three key groups.

Sometimes called “the new gold,” sand is the second most exploited natural resource in the world after fresh water.

The dating pool is small — no pun intended.

Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.

A recent study is the first to fabricate electronic components from endogenous molecules.

Hackers are in an arms race with cyber defenders. Will AI tip the balance?

Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure.

This new geologic activity could be part of a thousand-year cycle, ushering in a new era of volcanism on the island.

Now they’re pointing the way to future battery technologies.

Scientists don’t understand why the correlation exists.

Crafting an effective learning and development strategy can be challenging. Here are five key considerations.

“In that conversation with Laozi’s text, I began to see the shape of my own life, the questions that opened seams, the patterns that pooled and shimmered.”

The Uros of Lake Titicaca live on floating islands made from reeds. How did they get there?

From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.

Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.

Meet your new flying nightmare: Thapunngaka shawi.

Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.

The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.

Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.

The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.

Eat your beans.

There is strong evidence that invertebrates are sentient beings.

Off-the-shelf consumer technology is helping people pursue their interests — and advancing science at the same time.

A food fight may finally be put to rest.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a medieval airship!

Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.

Raw food, paleo, gluten-free, detox, and ketogenic: All of these diet fads withered when subjected to scientific scrutiny.

A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.