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Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.

Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.

An unexpected finding shows us how little we know about the early human story in our region.

A “seafood mafia” is plying the waters between India and Sri Lanka to satisfy China’s appetite for an increasingly rare delicacy.

These enormous centipedes are straight out of science fiction.

According to international law, the seabed belongs to everyone.

Finland reveals that happiness is more about mindset than umbrella drinks and sun-warmed beaches.

The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.

The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.

1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.

America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.

Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.

Science can teach us so much about our planet, but something more must compel us to take care of it. If you want to understand our planet, the best way to […]

With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.

For decades, researchers have proposed that climate change and human-caused environmental destruction led to demographic collapse on Easter Island. That’s probably false, according to new research.

Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.

Scientists discover burrows of giant predator worms that lived on the seafloor 20 million years ago.

If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]

Exceptionally high-quality videos allow scientists to formally introduce a remarkable new comb jelly.

Sometimes, new combinations of preexisting things revolutionize life.

Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.

All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]

The eclipse season is starting with a bang.

“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”

Interactive globe shows where your hometown was at various stages of Earth’s deep geological past.

There are an estimated two trillion galaxies within the observable Universe. Most are already unreachable, and the situation only gets worse.

Virtual tourism has thus far been a futuristic dream, but a world shaped by Covid-19 may be ready to accept it.

This is your brain on work.