Science
Imagine taking a stroll through a forest 74 million years ago. In our collective imagination, dominated by movies and classic…
Imagine standing at the mouth of a deep, dark cave nearly 1.8 million years ago, watching the flickering warmth of…
For over a century and a half, a quiet mystery lay sleeping in the archives of paleontology, preserved in fragments…
The eternal quest to answer whether humanity is alone in the cosmos has taken a thrilling, yet wonderfully complicated, turn…
Humanity has always lived under the quiet warmth of a distant fusion reactor: our sun. For nearly a century, our…
Imagine standing in what is now northwestern China some one hundred and twenty million years ago, a realm far removed…
For generations, the cerebellum—a wrinkled, fist-sized structure tucked quietly at the very base of our skull—was treated by science as…
We often find immense solace in a clear blue sky, instinctively assuming that the crisp, seemingly invisible air of modern…
High atop the wind-swept, sun-scorched flanks of Nevado Coropuna, Peru’s tallest volcano, a silent revolution in our understanding of Earth’s…
The quiet landscapes of the American Southwest are facing an unwelcome and deeply unsettling ghost from the past. After more…
For generations, fans of the macabre have been entertained by “Thing,” the lively, disembodied hand that scuttles around the gothic…
For millennia, the fiery crimson glint of Mars in our night sky has acted as a celestial mirror, reflecting humanity’s…
