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The lush biodiversity of South America’s rainforests is rooted in one of the most cataclysmic events that ever struck Earth.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
Despite all the challenges, Hubble has vindicated this discovery. Practically everywhere we look in the Universe, the large-scale objects that we see — small galaxies, large galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies, […]
Buddhism has rules for slaying your enemies. But the real surprise is finding out who your enemies actually are.
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
If you’re a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren’t any neutrinos slow?
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
Today’s careers don’t offer a clear path forward, but the rewards can be worth more than a gold watch at retirement.
Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.
All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
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.
The hot Big Bang was an energetic, brilliantly luminous event. Today’s Universe is alight with stars. But in between, the dark ages ruled.
The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
The story of dog domestication is one of converting the wild wolf into man’s nicer, smarter, best friend. It might be all wrong.
Dark matter hasn’t been directly detected, but some form of invisible matter is clearly gravitating. Could the graviton hold the answer?
The hyperloop would be a great idea for a completely flat planet. With topography and infrastructure, it’s a very different story.
The architecture and infrastructure found may well have required the greatest amount of skilled labor of any construction from the same time period in the entire continent.
13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here’s why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn’t how it will end.
The highest-energy particles could be a sign of new, unexpected physics. But the simplest, most mundane explanation is particularly iron-ic.
Three fundamental forces matter inside an atom, but gravity is mind-bogglingly weak on those scales. Could extra dimensions explain why?
Memes communicate complex ideas quickly and efficiently, but that’s precisely what makes them so dangerous.
The Knights Templar were not only skilled fighters, but also clever bankers who played a crucial role in the development of Europe’s financial systems.
It turns out it’s hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.
Until now, researchers believed davemaoite could never be found on Earth’s surface.