The Seabed 2030 project has lifted global ocean-floor coverage from 6% to approximately 28.7% since its launch in 2017. Four years remain to close the rest of the gap, and the physics of deep-ocean mapping make that a formidable task.
From orbit, Earth's atmosphere can look less like a shield than a thin line of colour marking the narrow conditions that make known life possible.
NASA's September 2025 Cheyava Falls announcement is one of Mars science's strongest potential biosignature claims, but not a life detection.
Michel Siffre's 1962 cave experiment showed how human time perception can drift when light, calendars, clocks, and ordinary daily markers disappear.
The year an American president signs a major infrastructure bill, a Chinese provincial governor breaks ground on three high-speed rail lines in the same week.
Astronaut accounts of a burnt-metal smell after spacewalks are less about smelling vacuum than about what suit surfaces bring back into a repressurised airlock.
After his guru Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada died in 1977, the young Hawaiian surfer-turned-yoga-teacher Chris Butler broke from the Hare Krishna movement and founded the Science of Identity Foundation — a closed sect whose devotees, unusually, were encouraged to run for office under their own legal names.
The dinosaurs that left the tracks at Dewars Farm Quarry were walking across Oxfordshire approximately 166 million years ago, in the Middle Jurassic period…
Across the same two decades in which the United States and the Soviet Union were competing to send rockets and astronauts further and further out from Earth, a…
Somewhere in geostationary orbit, a satellite is shadowing an American one. Somewhere closer to the ground, a navigation signal is being jammed.
The entrance to Veryovkina Cave is, in physical terms, unimpressive. A roughly square opening about three metres wide and four metres long, sitting on the side…
The human body is, in molecular terms, mostly water, mostly carbon-based organic compounds, mostly the same elements that compose every other multicellular organism on Earth.
The default mode network burns about a fifth of the brain's energy maintaining the inner narrative of the self. Marcus Raichle named it in 2001 after PET scans kept showing the same regions lighting up the moment subjects stopped working.
That the universe is expanding has been known for nearly a century. Galaxies are flying apart, and the more distant ones recede faster, as Edwin Hubble worked out in the 1920s.
We are used to saying that Neanderthals went extinct, around forty thousand years ago, edged out by modern humans.
In June 1900, Nikola Tesla published an essay in The Century Magazine titled "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy.
