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Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
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.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.
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When plans fall apart, adaptability can build something better.
Asteroid 2024 YR4, which could devastate a city’s worth of humans, has gone from 1.2% to 2.3% to 2.6% to 3.1% chances of impact. Here’s why.
Seeking life beyond the Solar System, we first look to the closest star systems with Earth-like planets. Here’s why that’s not good enough.
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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Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth’s coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
Finding out we’re not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here’s how we could do it.
All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?
Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
Matt Strassler’s journey into fundamental physics culminates in a brilliant explanation of the Higgs field. Enjoy this exclusive interview.
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
It’s on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?
Asteroid collisions aren’t always bad.
Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.