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Light pollution now steals a pristine night sky from the majority of humanity. The rise of LED lighting, primarily since 2014, is to blame.
Today, in the here-and-now, a full 13.8 billion years have elapsed since the start of the hot Big Bang. But would that be true for everyone?
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That's not the full story.
Messier 77 is one of the largest nearby spiral galaxies, with an active, brilliant core. Here's what JWST's incomparable eyes saw inside it.
As traditional career paths break down, a more uncertain — and potentially more fulfilling — model is taking shape.
What the near-death experiences of daffodils can teach us about resilience, death, and becoming someone new.
A look at what could be if we ignore the doomers and make the most of AI.
A relatively tiny world in the Kuiper belt, just 500 km in diameter, has an atmosphere after all, joining Pluto. Here's what we know today.
The excavation most career advice skips.
Historian Jess Venner discusses how “critical fabulation” can help reveal the lived experiences of Pompeii’s voiceless residents.
The soils of "managed forests" can take decades to rebuild the carbon stocks and microbial communities found in undisturbed forests.
Only nearby objects appear to the naked eye. With telescopes of all types, especially in space, we've smashed those records many times over.
Triton is Neptune's largest moon today, but it was once the undisputed king of the Kuiper belt. Here's why the outer solar system matters.
Author Daniel Coyle has spent a lot of time around people with exceptional social habits. These are some that stood out.
Banded mongooses highlight the deep link between cooperation and conflict in nature.
There's a lot of room in interplanetary, interstellar, and intergalactic space, but just how low the densities go is truly mind-boggling.
A counterpoint to zero-sum thinking from Japan.
Tourism and environmental threats are shaping the fragile future of these iconic, surprisingly intelligent island predators.
Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
A free and happy bird does not pace the room.