Science & Engineering
Science
Space science and discovery
Science & Engineering
Earth has gone through five mass extinction events in its history, each wiping out…
Science & Engineering
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs did not just leave a crater, it turned the…
Science & Engineering
The Amazon’s ancient drainage system once ran the other way, carrying water and…
Science & Engineering
The light from the Andromeda Galaxy — the most distant object visible to the naked…
Science & Engineering
Laughter is linked to reward processing and lower cortisol, but brain-rewiring…
Science & Engineering
A lost continent lies in pieces beneath southern Europe
Science & Engineering
Parts of Canada are quietly short on gravity
Science & Engineering
The Eye of the Sahara is a giant bullseye in the Mauritanian desert, up to fifty…
Science & Engineering
Cats can't taste sweetness — evolution turned off the relevant gene in their…
Science & Engineering
Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to humans than to Stegosaurus
Science & Engineering
There is a species of jellyfish that is essentially immortal
Science & Engineering
Honeybees can recognize human faces — they can be trained to distinguish between…
Science & Engineering
There is a fish that can live more than a hundred years
Science & Engineering
There are about 20 quadrillion ants alive on Earth at any moment
Science & Engineering