Darren Rice. For over two decades, a strange little marine creature puzzled biologist David Harasti. While diving off Papua ...

We already know what’s Under the Tuscan Sun. Now, a technique called ambient noise tomography has allowed researchers to see deep under the Tuscan crust.

Some people can recall almost every day of their adult lives with startling precision. Give them a date, and they can often name the day of the week, what happened in the news, and what they were ...

There are 8 billion of us alive today, give or take a few hundred million. We crowd cities, cross oceans in mere hours, and argue through glowing screens. That certainly sounds like a lot of people, ...

The olivine treated beach in Southampton, New York. Credit: Chayenne Moreau In 2022, researchers added crushed green olivine to a beach in Southampton, New York, to test whether the mineral could help ...

A reproduction of the Fasti Antiates Maiores, a painted wall-calendar from the late Roman Republic. Image via Wiki Commons. By 46 BC, Rome had conquered much of the Mediterranean world. But it had ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

A university student in Taiwan allegedly used a homemade radio setup to send a fake emergency alarm into the country’s high-speed rail system, briefly disrupting train service and exposing a security ...

Astrology is a big global business. Apps, websites, and paid readings promise something deeply personal: a glimpse of your future, your personality, your job prospects, and, of course, your love life.

No matter where you are in the world, the early morning often comes with a familiar ritual. Kitchens, offices, petrol stations, and sad little airport cafés around the world all buzz with a mug, a cup ...

A rare, long-lost copy of Caedmon’s Hymn — the first poem ever written down in Old English — is visible in the five lines above the final line of a page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the ...

Flag map of the world. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Look at a world map, and all those bold borders and country names seem permanent. They aren’t. The geography we memorized in school is written in ...