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The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won’t be nearly so bright.
Some artifacts drown in shipwrecks, others are taken by the tide. Many others will vanish as a result of climate change and rising sea levels.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
How do these little beasties detect light anyway?
This map shows that the territories discovered by Europeans add up to an area no bigger than Utah.
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.
A clever new design introduces a way to image the vast ocean floor.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
The arc of geological history is long, but it bends towards supercontinents – so, what will the next one look like?
When you wish upon a star, it probably makes a difference who you are.
A new study reveals what caused most life on Earth to die out during the end-Permian extinction, also known as the Great Dying.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
What’s to blame for the recent uptick in containership accidents?
The opening of jars, while impressive and often used to illustrate octopus intelligence, is not their most remarkable ability.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our “lucky stars” enabled our existence.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
Ingenuity is remarkable. But these 5 exploration ideas are revolutionary. Telescopes are our initial tools for revealing and studying foreign worlds. Hubble images of Mars, particularly around the regions with […]
Evolution proves to be just about as ingenious as Nikola Tesla
Geologists discover a rhythm to major geologic events.
There’s an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets, and all those chances at life, why do we all live here?
A new study shows that at least one long-ago journey would have required deliberate navigation.