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When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.

In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”

Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.

A new tuna robot leads the way to more agile underwater robots and drones.

Red dwarf stars were supposed to be inhospitable. But TOI-700, now with at least two potentially habitable worlds, is quite the exception.

A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]

Icebergs aren’t just a threat to unsinkable ships. Their ability to cause underwater landslides poses a danger to coastal cities.

The universe’s largest seismometer reveals clues about the Gas Giant’s interior.

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.

The organisms were anchored to a boulder 900 meters beneath the ice, living a cold, dark existence miles away from the open ocean.

The findings at L’Anse aux Meadows mark the the earliest known year by which human migration had encircled the planet.

The pulse took just 35 hours to cover the whole world.

If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.

Oxygen is thought to be a biomarker for extraterrestrial life, but there are at least three different ways that a lifeless planet can produce it.

To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.

Venus has far more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than Earth, which turned our sister planet into an inferno. But how did it get there?

In one of the ocean’s most lifeless places, scientists discover and resuscitate ancient organisms.

Metal-like materials have been discovered in a very strange place.

One of the world’s most isolated island groups has just been made one of the world’s largest ocean reserves.

Digitized logbooks from the 1800s reveal a steep decline in strike rate for whalers.

On December 19 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the Apollo 17 lunar mission. They were the last people to travel […]

A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”

“Don’t tread on me” is a slogan of the deep sea, too.

Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.

In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.

One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.

With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.

Long before Alexandria became the center of Egyptian trade, there was Thônis-Heracleion. But then it sank.

A simple trick allowed marine biologists to prove a long-held suspicion.

There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.