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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.

We used to think human migration was a simple branching tree. Ancient DNA proved it's something far stranger. Harvard Geneticist David Reich explains.

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?

What if the voice in your head is less of a witness and more of an interpreter? Two neuroscientists discuss the brain’s drive to explain, narrate, and make everything add up.

This new recipe for clean cement works. The question is whether anyone can scale it. Cody Finke, founder and CEO of Brimstone, explains how the IMPACT Act could help make that happen.

In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That's not the full story.

Psychologist Daniel Goleman describes an “optimal state” of peak performance where work feels effortless and achievement becomes energizing. According to Goleman, individuals, teams, and organizations can cultivate this state through mindfulness, focus, and emotional intelligence.

Musicologist Michael Spitzer walks us through the natural origins of human music and creativity.

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.

Beneath our assumptions lies the most complex, unsolved question in physics: Why does time have any direction at all?

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.