On the first night, 7 January 1610, Galileo recorded what he was seeing in his observation notebook with the careful, slightly bemused understatement of a researcher who knew he was looking at something interesting but did not yet know what.
Kim and Maglio's 2025 paper suggests that trying to force happiness may consume the self-regulatory effort needed for the behaviours that support well-being.
For most of the history of thinking about animal minds, behaviour was the only evidence on offer.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, American psychiatry was in the middle of a public credibility crisis.
The country that sent Sergei Krikalev into orbit on 18 May 1991 was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
On the night of 25 January 1849, Captain Kempthorne of the ship Moozuffer recorded in his log that the Arabian Sea around him had begun to glow.
Every cell in the human body carries on its surface a set of molecular flags called MHC class I molecules.
Somewhere in the cold dark water below the Arctic ice, several individual Greenland sharks alive today were almost certainly already swimming when the first…
When the first European ship arrived at Easter Island in 1722, the Dutch sailors aboard found something they could not explain.
In 1950, the United States Census Bureau estimated that approximately 2,300 Americans were aged 100 or older.
The quote has a clean, precise quality that most observations about fear do not.
The face you walked into the room with this morning was being read, by every person who looked at you, in the first moments of being seen.
Somewhere in a windowless data centre, in a country that may or may not be your own, a server is quietly storing a copy of every encrypted email you have ever…
For 15 years after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake — among the most thoroughly instrumented natural disasters in history — a small anomaly in the GPS data sat unresolved in the archives.
Look at a windowsill after a week without cleaning and you are looking at a material document.
The discovery happened on a Sunday evening. On 15 February 2026, Filipp Romanov was at his laptop in his grandparents' old house in Yuzhno-Morskoy, a coastal…
