Light pollution has become a public health crisis that neuroscientists are only beginning to understand, leaving millions of people living under skies that their bodies were never designed to navigate.
A Georgian polyphonic song travels farther from Earth than any human creation, carrying a nation's voice into the cosmos—and its journey raises ancient questions about what humanity chooses to remember.
The retreat involved no substances. The psilocybin comparison came from the lead researcher’s description of questionnaire scores, not evidence that the participants’ brains changed as they would after taking psilocybin.
When wildfire smoke turns the sky apocalyptic shades of red and gold, it's not the flames doing the coloring—it's physics playing a trick with light.
A new analysis of the dinosaur-killing asteroid upends decades of climate theory, suggesting the impact winter may have unfolded through an entirely different mechanism than scientists believed.
I don't think I'm being naive when I say: within my lifetime, "we're going away this year" might mean the Moon instead of Portugal.
On a Friday evening, being alone can feel entirely different depending on something I cannot always name right away.
This article discusses circadian biology and personal experience with light exposure.
The cat sleeps more. It jumps up onto things less. It takes longer to get comfortable and doesn't race around the way it used to.
A widely circulated post claimed that 70% of Gen Z and Millennials cannot relax because they were taught that rest is wasteful. The number has no identifiable source, although named surveys and experiments document burnout and idleness aversion.
I had the podcast on in the background while I was doing something else entirely.
A few months ago, I found myself deep in a conversation about Mars colonization timelines.
I study how people form emotional relationships with places and ideas. Which means I notice when those relationships quietly break.
Fear at height depends on visual cues, balance, perceived control, and context. An astronaut's experience illustrates the difference, but it does not replace clinical evidence about acrophobia.
On my 27th birthday, I watched a film about the sun dying. Project Hail Mary does not waste time on sentiment about this.
