A pair of illustrators turned tiny blips in data into vivid views from the TRAPPIST-1 star system.
There’s a psychological reason that people like to tweet pictures of cute animals with their political opinions.
The outcome will shape the planet’s climate for generations.
Three researchers describe their findings in NASA’s study of identical twin brothers, one in space and one on Earth.
In the battle against antibiotic resistance, salt might be a simple but effective weapon.
The region’s ecology is a product of 8,000 years of indigenous agriculture.
Meet the storage format that never goes obsolete.
When I first contacted Nikolai Formozov about his paper on a 30,000-year-old squirrel originally found by Gulag prisoners, which…
“We should be very thankful to those unnamed prisoners who saved those carcasses.”
Training neural networks to identify galaxies could forever change humanity’s perspective of the universe.
Scientists have devised an ingenious new method to figure out which of these habitats are most worth saving.
They get less than any other animal, which leaves a jumbo-sized hole in theories about why animals snooze at all.
When one natural cycle falls out of sync with another, everyone pays the price.
How the “radium girls” revealed the danger of radiation, and fought for safety standards
A history of wine obsessives
Moderation seems to be a better approach than greed—for foragers, at least.
A new study suggests that, contrary to common fears, the answer is no.
One of the most volcanically active countries in the world is not ready for a devastating eruption.
To make a triumphant return to the moon with two dudes on board would be, well, less triumphant.
Hydrogen-spewing eruptions could help heat the atmospheres of planets that were once thought to be outside of the habitable zone.
Some ornithologists have very strong feelings about hyphens.