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.
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Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
Long before Alexandria became the center of Egyptian trade, there was Thônis-Heracleion. But then it sank.
We are likely to see the first humans walk on Mars this decade.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
Are some of us simple destined for unhappiness?
These core teachings make an ideal starting point for exploring Buddhist philosophy.
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
The following is an excerpt from Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2021. Koch’s Postulates, Anthrax, […]
Yet another ocean monster has been discovered.
To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.
The meaning of the cryptic text has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights into the medieval enigma.
The Mayan calendar is revered for its impeccable accuracy. Now, a recent excavation in Guatemala reveals how the system developed over time.
The catastrophic birth defect anencephaly affects about 1 in 4,600 pregnancies in the U.S. It is largely preventable with folic acid supplements.
Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.
We already know animals feel emotions, and that they can understand humans’ emotions. But can they understand each other’s emotions?
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
Surface deformation or other signs of an impending explosion may not occur. Instead, supervolcanic eruptions can be much more insidious.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”
It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.
Life arose on Earth early on, eventually giving rise to us: intelligent and technologically advanced. “First contact” still remains elusive.
A new study examines the under-researched area of water theft around the world.
Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.
Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.
Some astrobiologists believe life is rare, while others believe it is common in the Universe. How can we find out which view is correct?