Teegarden's Star b is a planet of at least about 1.16 Earth masses, orbiting a red dwarf about 12.5 light-years away in the constellation Aries.
According to the UN Population Division's World Fertility 2024 report, 131 of the 237 countries and areas it tracks now have fertility below 2.1 births per woman, the rough level a population needs to replace itself without migration.
In a 1959 Stanford experiment, two groups were paid to lie about a tedious task. The group paid less came to believe the lie. The result launched one of psychology's most influential theories, and it still complicates how we think about persuasion and pay.
The standard popular framing treats loneliness as a problem of insufficient social contact.
Since 1938, a group of researchers at Harvard has followed the same set of men through their entire adult lives.
The ridges on your fingertips were set before you were born, and well before anyone had decided what to call you.
In his memoir, Nikola Tesla described a working method that sounds almost too clean to believe.
A recent paper reports that urban birds in five European countries allowed men to approach roughly a metre nearer than women before taking flight.
If you walk through the centre of Mussomeli, a hilltop town in central Sicily with a population of about 10,000, you can stop in the local tourist office and pick up a list of houses that the municipality is selling for €1 each.
Somewhere in the soil of northeastern Yakutia, about 3.5 metres below the present-day surface and trapped in permafrost so old it dates from the height of the last Ice Age, a small multicellular animal had been waiting for a very long time.
If you had walked across what is now the Algerian Sahara around 6,000 BCE, you would not have recognised the terrain.
Helmut and Erika Simon, a German couple from Nuremberg, were hiking across the Tisenjoch pass on the border between Austria and Italy on the afternoon of 19…
At 2:45 in the morning on 21 July 1983, the thermometer at Vostok Station on the Antarctic Plateau dropped to minus 89.2 degrees Celsius — the lowest natural…
If you point a powerful telescope at the right patch of sky on the border between the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, just below the handle of the Big Dipper, you can pick up a small bluish-white dot of light.
The plastic water bottle is one of the more recent inventions in the history of human packaging.
There is a particular kind of dread that comes from walking into a room and feeling instantly, totally seen.
