In November 1820, an 85-foot sperm whale rammed and sank the Nantucket whaleship Essex 2,000 miles from land. The 90-day ordeal that followed — and the choices Captain Pollard and first mate Owen Chase made in three open boats — would haunt the survivors for the rest of their lives and inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
In a 12,000-square-foot facility in West Sacramento, a startup called California Cultured has been growing cocoa without soil, without trees, and without West Africa.
For most of living memory, the demographic story ran in one direction: more people, every year, without an end in sight.
You finish a meal. Somewhere inside you, an organ roughly the size of a small melon begins flooding itself with a liquid acidic enough to dissolve metal.
The question of whether anxiety is primarily a condition of the mind or of the body has never resolved cleanly, and a major new genetics study published yesterday does not resolve it either.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday, the first model in the company's Mythos class made available to the general public.
In June last year, the The United Nations Population Fund released its annual flagship report and challenged a common story about falling birth rates: that people, given freedom and prosperity, simply want fewer children.
The experiment began with a back-of-the-envelope calculation. According to the Wikipedia reference on the Hafele-Keating experiment, Joseph C.
Somewhere beneath the highest point of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, near a region called Dome A, stands a mountain range comparable in scale to the European Alps.
Iceye's satellites photograph the Earth through cloud, smoke, and total darkness, bouncing radar pulses off the ground from orbit instead of waiting for sunlight.
The molecule is called ethyl formate. Its chemical formula is C2H5OCHO, with eleven atoms arranged as an ester.
The number that drew the headlines was 686,061. That is how many babies were born in Japan in 2024, the first time annual births had fallen below 700,000 since…
The Asian giant hornet arrived in Washington State in December 2019, carrying a venom that kills roughly 50 people a year in Japan and a hunting strategy that can dismantle a honeybee colony of 30,000 in hours.
We are not clinicians. This article reports on observational research about dog ownership and mortality and is not medical advice.
The standard scientific view, for most of the twentieth century, was that human intelligence peaked in late adolescence or early adulthood and then began a long, gradual decline.
The eastern brown snake causes most of Australia's snakebite deaths, and it thrives in suburban Brisbane and Sydney backyards by hunting the introduced black rats that have lived in colonial kitchens since 1788. Catchers pull thousands a year from pool filters, garages, and pantries.
