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 ...

Quite a hairy fish. Credit: Darren Rice. For over two decades, a strange little marine creature puzzled biologist David Harasti. While diving off Papua New Guinea in the early 2000s, he noticed what ...

Looking at a globe, a country’s coastline may appear smooth and continuous. But zoom in with a satellite view and that neat boundary dissolves as you see a maze of coves, cliffs, and peninsulas.

Scientists spent 15 years piecing together rare footage that captured remoras disappearing inside giant manta rays.

In late 2025, astronomers spotted an interstellar comet making a quick trip through the solar system. 3I/ATLAS was discovered ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

For a while, that decline seemed distant — a problem for wild meadows, forests, and faraway ecosystems. But the fallout is ...

Have you ever looked up while driving on a highway and spotted those big orange balls hanging on power lines? They look a bit like giant toy beads strung along the electric wires. What in the world ...

Photosynthesis is one of the most astonishing processes on Earth. Without it, we wouldn’t have plants. Without plants, most life as we know it would collapse. Mammals, of course, can’t photosynthesize ...

Nine out of ten people favor their right hand. They write with it, eat with it, throw with it, greet strangers with it, and build tools around the assumption that most other people will do the same, ...

In just a couple of years, Ozempic has become an international household name. For millions of people, GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound have become the go-to answer for weight ...

In practice, that means a group of soldiers carrying Falcon IV or RF-9820S radios could create a local electronic bubble ...