The Pacific's most powerful storms can reshape coastlines from hundreds of miles away, delivering dangerous surf long before—or even if—the hurricane itself never arrives.

By refusing to look away, a space telescope discovered that planets are commonplace, not rare exceptions to the cosmic rule.

The pitch drop experiment with custodian John Mainstone, University of Queensland. Photo: John Mainstone / University of Queensland, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 1927, a physics professor ...

An Artemis II astronaut photographed the cratered Moon and crescent Earth from Orion in April 2026. Credit: NASA. The image is illustrative and is not one of the microbial-survival maps from the study ...

A gift of more than $5.5 million from Anna and Greg Brockman — Greg being the cofounder and president of OpenAI — closed the gap on a roughly $10 million community fundraising target and cleared the ...

A possum in Key Largo is walking around wearing a tracking collar that costs about as much as a decent pair of boots, and everyone involved has a fair idea how her story ends. She was lured into a ...

Maple syrup sugarhouses, shown as a thematic illustration of a hypothetical retirement example. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a Vermont sugarmaker retiring with roughly 800 gallons of ...

Picture a mound of clothing so large you can see it from orbit. Jeans, fleece jackets, cheap party dresses, some with the tags still on, piled across the driest desert on Earth. This is real. It sits ...

The experiment at Oregon State University’s research farm in Corvallis was set up like a fair fight. Two groups of weaned Polypay lambs, matched and weighed. Two pastures side by side: one open to the ...

A small group of woolly mammoths clung to a scrap of land off the Siberian coast for roughly six thousand years after the rest of their kind had vanished. Everything we assume about tiny, isolated, ...

There is a difference between knowing something and just feeling like you already know it. Epictetus built a whole piece of advice around that gap. As one modern translation of his Discourses (2.17.1) ...

Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...