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The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.

Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.

Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope viewed Neptune, our Solar System’s final planet, for the first time. Here’s what we saw, and what it means.

There has been a 600% increase in European gas prices so far in 2021.

The key is finding which lifestyle suits you best: hedonic, eudaimonic, or experiential.

The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.

Whenever the climate cooled, our hominin ancestors would set up shop in the Arabian Peninsula and vanish again when the planet warmed up.

Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.

Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be kept at -100°F until it’s administered. Can caregivers deliver?

The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.

It’s the early 20th century, and you are the captain of a ship. A barquentine specifically—three masts and a coal-burning steam engine in her belly. She’s a sturdy and capable […]

Researchers detect a large lake and several ponds deep under the ice of the Martian South Pole.

The idea of gravitational redshift crossed Einstein’s mind years before General Relativity was complete. Here’s why it had to be there.

Was there ever life on Mars? Is there life on Mars now? Did it originate there or here, on Earth? All possibilities are fascinating.

Nikolaas Tinbergen’s concept of “supernormal stimulus” explains why humans are attracted to a heightened version of reality.

A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.

Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.

As always, aDNA research raises as many questions as answers.

At very high and very low temperatures, matter takes on properties that open up an entire Universe of remarkable new possibilities.

The impact might have triggered the Ice Age.

Many key inventions were unique: one-offs.

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

In 2020, we experienced the shortest ‘day’ in 50 years. Here’s the reason why. On the timescales that humans experience, there are lots of things that we consider to be extremely […]

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

If Arctic ice continues to melt at its projected rate, the bears will go extinct due to starvation by the end of the century according to a first-ever projected timeline.

Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that’s visible from Earth, and then some!

Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.

You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?

Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.