Somewhere along the Maici River, a tributary of the Amazon deep in the Brazilian rainforest, lives a community of roughly 900 people called the Pirahã.
The finding is one of the most carefully documented and least understood in contemporary cognitive science.
The problem was not how to write a warning sign. It was how to write one for people 10,000 years from now, after every language on it may have changed beyond recognition.
Drop a hammer and a feather on Earth and the result seems obvious. The hammer hits the ground first.
Mount Everest keeps the title most people mean when they talk about the highest mountain on Earth.
In February 2017, an international team led by Majid Ezzati, professor of global environmental health at Imperial College London, published a paper in The Lancet projecting future life expectancy across 35 industrialised countries.
The region is called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. It is approximately six million square kilometres of abyssal plain stretching between Mexico and Hawaii, roughly the width of the continental United States, with an average depth of around 5,000 metres.
The first eight wolves arrived through the Roosevelt Arch on the morning of 12 January 1995, in a horse trailer escorted by two park service patrol cars.
W2246f looks calm in exactly the place astronomers expected trouble. The spiral galaxy sits about 1.2 billion light years from Earth, spans roughly 50,000 to…
On 1 August 1971, Apollo 15 commander David Scott quietly placed a 3.5-inch aluminium figurine and a plaque listing fourteen dead American and Soviet space travellers on the lunar surface — and didn't tell NASA until the crew was home. The Fallen Astronaut is still the only figurative sculpture on another world.
At 9:04 a.m. Eastern time on Friday, June 5, mission control in Houston told five astronauts on the International Space Station to put on their pressure suits…
In 2018, in the weeks before the US midterm elections, a team of economists led by Hunt Allcott of New York University and Matthew Gentzkow of Stanford…
Mawsynram, in the Indian state of Meghalaya, averages 11,872 millimetres of rain a year. To walk through downpours that can last weeks, Khasi villagers weave a bamboo and banana-leaf shield called a knup that covers them from head to knees and leaves both hands free.
Petrichor, the smell of first rain on dry ground, is a cocktail of plant oils and a bacterial molecule called geosmin that the human nose detects at five parts per trillion — a sensitivity sharper than a shark's nose for blood.
The University of Kansas communication researcher Jeffrey Hall set out to answer a deceptively simple question in 2018: how many hours, in concrete terms, does it actually take to make a friend?
SpaceX is no longer just an object of IPO speculation. On May 20, 2026, Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
