The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.
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A dispute marked by flags and booze has been replaced with an official land border.
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
Who doesn’t love a little existential fear every once in a while?
Due to a crust of carbon, the absence of oxygen, and constant bombardment from meteorites, the planet Mercury may be littered with diamonds.
The plant-like sea creatures contain a molecule that improves memory, learning, and even hair quality, according to a new study in mice.
Matt Strassler’s journey into fundamental physics culminates in a brilliant explanation of the Higgs field. Enjoy this exclusive interview.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.
Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.
Researchers hypothesize that these exoplanets could support the development of alien life.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
The Universe changes remarkably over time, with some entities surviving and others simply decaying away. Is this cosmic evolution at work?
In theory, dark matter is cold, collisionless, and only interacts via gravity. What we see in ultra-diffuse galaxies indicates otherwise.
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
Where the prime meridian meets the equator, a non-existent island captures our imagination — and our non-geocoded data.
The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia’s Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.
There are pros and cons to sending interstellar messages to aliens that may or may not exist.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
Because of dark energy, distant objects speed away from us faster and faster as time goes on. How long before every galaxy is out of reach?
With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.
Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.
The story of China is the story of global economics.
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
Colors can influence your emotions and behaviors, but “color psychology” yields no real insight into your personality.
In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”
555-million-year-old oceanic creatures share genes with today’s humans, finds a new study.