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Over 800,000 fireworks explode in under an hour in the world's largest fireworks shows. How do natural auroral displays compare in energy?

Steve Brusatte, the paleontologist behind Jurassic World's science and author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, walks through what fossils actually prove versus what Hollywood invented. 

Jamir Nazir says “The Serpent in the Grove” came from a childhood memory. The internet said it came from a machine.

65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, causing a mass extinction. Without advance warning, could anyone have spotted it?

Zena Hitz argues that the real philosophers are taxi drivers, office clerks, and prisoners: Everyday people who exist outside the cult of academia.

In conversation with Kmele Foster, Dan Carlin unpacks the myth of shared reality, the erosion of society, and the history that preceded it.

With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that makes for a lot of stars. But not as many as you'd think.

Throwing away the narratives that pull us down and make us unhappy.

The first one, NGC 1052-DF2, was mired in controversy. With four examples now, there only remains one possible escape. What does nature say?

A specific behavior might help explain the stereotype, recent research suggests.

A tombstone reveals the life story of a man who endured the brutal reality of Roman war and slavery.

Your inner monologue doesn't have to devolve into toxic "chatter."

Classicist Mary Beard explains why you should read The Odyssey before going to see Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the epic.

Most ‘theories of everything’ make the universe feel smaller. Physicist Stephen Wolfram's does the opposite.

Over 10 billion years in the past, an ultra-massive galaxy cluster lenses objects behind it. That has big implications for dark matter.

At 240 million light-years away, galaxy NGC 1277 hasn't formed new stars in over 10 billion years. Could it contain the first stars' ashes?

Economists examining half a million ancient coins trace the end of Rome — and the rise of northern Europe — to the 7th century.

The brain’s default mode network gives rise to costly ruminations, but it can also be a source of creative breakthroughs.

Two thousand years ago, the Chinese philosopher identified a problem workplaces still struggle with: leaders who create dependence rather than foster capability.

We live on Earth, orbiting the Sun, part of our Solar System, within the Milky Way. But what's our membership status on even larger scales?