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A meme is making a difference for a country in dire straits.
The amazing story of how the Cosmic Microwave Background was discovered completely by accident by American scientists.
American patients tend to hear negative, menacing voices while African patients have helpful auditory hallucinations.
It's a humanitarian and environmental disaster.
Under Musk's free-for-all guise, Twitter is in a very precarious spot, and research says it's unlikely to do well.
These graphs and charts explain why the world is on the brink of a climate catastrophy -- but also how we got here.
Going outside with wet hair won't turn you into a viral magnet, but that doesn't mean you should do it anyway.
Sweden's unique approach in the early days of the pandemic put people needlessly at risk. A different approach would have saved lives.
It looks like a flying mouth with eyes -- and we absolutely adore it!
Struggling to save trapped and injured bats, scientists endure Russian shelling and accusations of spreading bioweapons.
Indoor farming is a growing trend in urban centers, where a single facility can grow millions of heads of lettuce.
We’ve been spreading a myth all this time.
The unlikely story of how an unusual material became entwined with a country's identity.
Such goggles can make night look bright as day.
Something to make you look at things with a different lens.
That's a huge mark made by a tiny number.
With a little help from a team of researchers, we get to see what climate change looks like from the perspective of a northern red oak.
Some stars are brighter than others, but why? Size and distance matter.
Cerf and Kahn may have invented the primary protocol for the internet, but many others made valuable contributions.
Given the development of California and its proximity to the fault, San Andreas can cause huge problems in the not-too-distant future.
You won't ever see octopuses the same way after reading this.
How a famous opera proliferated one of the most enduring myths in popular culture.
Turkmenistan's dictator has ordered the fiery crater be plugged, but closing the Gates of Hell is no trivial task.
How a strange illness connected to consuming human flesh led to two Nobel Prizes.
Even as some questions are unclear, the replica is helping us understand a piece of this ancient time.
Your introduction to the world of sedimentary rocks and processes.
You can't see them, but there are millions of insects flying over your head each day.
It's a type of forgery we've never seen before, and this novel-worthy fiction was created out of boredom and loneliness.
No one wants to live through a recession, but they're inevitable at some point -- and sometimes, they can have some unexpected benefits.
From putting lead in fish to anal beads, the ongoing scandals have it all. Have a seat, we're going down the rabbit hole.
Not all birds soar high in the sky.
Wind, geology, and chemistry meet up to create this important phenomenon.
These photographs are simply amazing.
Basalts, granites, and everything in between: all you wanted to know about igneous rocks.
The arrow, which shows impressive craftsmanship, dates from the 6th century BC, two hundred years before the Vikings emerged.
The meteorologist leading NOAA’s 2022 hurricane field program describes flying through eyewalls and the technology in these airborne labs for tracking rapid intensification in real time.
Whenever people from different cultures met, one of the first things they exchanged was food. The world is now a lot richer (and bearable) thanks to them.
Welding without heat is not impossible. On the contrary, it can be quite effective.
Male gorillas beat their chest to signal dominance to other males, but also their reproductive value to females.
For-profit conferences that masquerade as legitimate academic events but lack trusted selection and peer review processes are becoming more common. Here’s why that matters.
The unbelievable story of a Bavarian knight who lost a hand in battle but gained a mechanical prosthetic hand that was way ahead of its time.
Mathematics has long been dancing between the arts and the sciences. It's hard to corner it into one camp.
After all, “whole worlds pivot on acts of imagination.”
It's remarkable what a few repetitive atoms can do.
Beaver dams are great for maintaining the health of our ecosystems but it looks like both beavers and humans are unaware of this fact.
Even Elon Musk is tweeting about it.
We interviewed a Nobel Laureate about his ambitious plan to make California's water usage more efficient.
Love hurts. Apparently, sometimes, cat love hurts a lot.
There's a lot of variability, but one big culprit stands out.
What is so important about the James Webb’s big old galaxies?
