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Researchers detect a large lake and several ponds deep under the ice of the Martian South Pole.
The impact might have triggered the Ice Age.
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 […]
The last naked-eye Milky Way supernova happened way back in 1604. The next one could be the key to solving the dark matter mystery.
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.
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 sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.
Whenever the climate cooled, our hominin ancestors would set up shop in the Arabian Peninsula and vanish again when the planet warmed up.
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
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.
Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.
There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.
“Kids are always asking two questions of parents: ‘Am I safe?’ and ‘Am I real?'”
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
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 […]
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn’t even the worst-case scenario.
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.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
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.
The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.
Water may be far more abundant on the lunar surface than previously thought.
An unexpected finding shows us how little we know about the early human story in our region.
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.
Many key inventions were unique: one-offs.
As always, aDNA research raises as many questions as answers.
Nikolaas Tinbergen’s concept of “supernormal stimulus” explains why humans are attracted to a heightened version of reality.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.