Experts say it’s likely space junk—and there’s plenty more where that came from.
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Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
Contrary to conventional wisdom, matter can escape the center of the Earth.
The outer planets’ clouds hide the weirdness within.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
On a cosmic scale, our existence seems insignificant and inconsequential. But from another perspective, humans are completely remarkable.
Embark on a journey through one of the most profound ecological transitions in the history of complex life.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
From anger to awe: How Diana Nyad overcame “debilitating trauma” to conquer a near-impossible 53-hour swim at 64.
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Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
“Amid the chaos, he remembered his life being eerily calm as he knew it wasn’t if, but when they would be hacked to pieces. He just kept kicking.”
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.
Scientists still aren’t sure how they perform without those restorative Z’s.
They’re in our brains, hearts, and blood — but what are they doing to us?
Some microbes can withstand Earth’s most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
The fear of deep bodies of water may be evolutionarily ingrained.
Environmental progress is happening quickly but we must keep pushing for change.
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Step back from the AI maelstrom and explore Lem’s “Summa Technologiae” for a detached look at technology’s role in human evolution.
For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
Our cosmic home, planet Earth, has been through a lot over the past 4.5 billion years. Here are some of its most spectacular changes
Looking back on our planet’s early history offers a new (and less crazy) meaning for the idea of a “flat Earth.”
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all uni-plate planets, and may always have been. Here’s what’s known about why Earth, uniquely, has plate tectonics.
Mansa Musa, perhaps history’s richest man, claims he ascended the throne of Mali after his predecessor sailed west and never came back. Could he have made it to the New World?