Rates of centenarians are going to increase eightfold in the next three decades.
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It will be the most extreme test of Einstein’s General Relativity ever. And we already have the data. With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity […]
Experts caution about the dangers of the current technological revolution at the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Earth is old enough to have been home to other industrialized civilizations so far back in the past we have no idea they were there. What we’ll leave behind may offer clues of what we could look for as evidence.
CFC-11 was banned worldwide in 1987 by the Montreal Protocol, but scientists have found increasing levels of the ozone-depleting chemical in the atmosphere since 2013.
Cephalopods like the octopus could have originated from outside of our solar system, possibly coming to Earth as hitchhikers frozen inside comets and meteors.
Scientists are investigating whether it’s possible to give modern elephants an ancient boost by reviving woolly mammoth DNA—all to curb climate change.
Now is a good time to brush up on who’s on the ballot.
MIT researchers find that 1–2 percent of Earth’s oldest mantle rocks are made from diamond. rnrn
Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to help stop the flow of plastics into our oceans.
A team of international scientists has pinpointed the cosmic source of a ghostly subatomic particle called a neutrino, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy.
If the multiverse is real, why hasn’t our Universe, in a sea of infinite possibilities, run into another one at least once? The Universe we inhabit is vast, full of matter […]
The changes humans bring to the environment, like pollution or pesticides, is spiking cancer rates in animals, according to a new study.
It’s okay to be skeptical. That’s why we have evidence. In all of human history, only 24 people have ever flown to the vicinity of the Moon, traveling hundreds of […]
Inconceivable wealth. And a few lessons in how not to get rich, too.
We tend to treat death and dying as a somber and serious event, but what if it doesn’t have to be that way?
Name one French coastline. Great. Now name another. Can’t? Here are all 36.
What inspired the Mona Lisa, China’s Terracotta Warriors, and more?
The Bermuda Triangle, one of the most mysterious places on Earth, doesn’t have an official map and the U.S. Coast Guard is why.
March 6 marked the 50th successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9, which the company plans to soon use to send humans into space.
You’ve probably seen it hanging around. But how did it get there? And can we live there?
What do luck, death, and Texas have in common? They’re all part of our weekly random fact roundup.
Looks like we finally know some answers that they didn’t in 1940.
The cumulative effect of plastics is taking its toll on the world. So supermarkets are starting to cut it out.
The world’s greatest clockmaker sent a clock to the new world, and everything went haywire. The reason why will shock you. For millennia, humanity’s one-and-only reliable way to keep time was […]
Stars don’t stay the same throughout their life, and the Sun is no exception. Here’s what’s going on. Here on Earth, the ingredients for life to survive, thrive, evolve, and sustain […]
The quest for the cause of the cosmos is an ancient quest. Neil Turok offers a fascinating new theory.
AI has identified six new dolphin clicks we never knew existed.
With every second that goes by, tens of thousands of star disappear from our reach. And it’s getting worse. It’s been nearly a century since scientists first theorized that the Universe […]
They make up 95% of our Universe today, but they weren’t always so important. One of the most puzzling mysteries about the Universe is simply, “where is everything?” All that […]