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The excavation most career advice skips.
Historian Jess Venner discusses how “critical fabulation” can help reveal the lived experiences of Pompeii’s voiceless residents.
The soils of "managed forests" can take decades to rebuild the carbon stocks and microbial communities found in undisturbed forests.
Only nearby objects appear to the naked eye. With telescopes of all types, especially in space, we've smashed those records many times over.
Triton is Neptune's largest moon today, but it was once the undisputed king of the Kuiper belt. Here's why the outer solar system matters.
Author Daniel Coyle has spent a lot of time around people with exceptional social habits. These are the habits that stood out.
Banded mongooses highlight the deep link between cooperation and conflict in nature.
There's a lot of room in interplanetary, interstellar, and intergalactic space, but just how low the densities go is truly mind-boggling.
A counterpoint to zero-sum thinking from Japan.
Tourism and environmental threats are shaping the fragile future of these iconic, surprisingly intelligent island predators.
Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
A free and happy bird does not pace the room.
Newton's gravitational constant, G, is still known to just 3 significant figures in 2026. New measurements merely highlight our uncertainty.
As mental health diagnoses become more common and expansive, the labels meant to help us understand our suffering may instead oversimplify it.
In 2006, the IAU defined "planet" for the first time, excluding Pluto and all other dwarf planets. In 2026, is it now time for a change?
Your to-do list isn't a debt to pay off. It's a menu to choose from.
How leaders destroy meaning (without realizing it).
Gaeilge is trending culturally. So why is it, according to census data, also dying?
The AI energy debate focuses on supply — but smarter planning could deliver more computing from the same megawatts.
Cadence
From within our own galaxy to behemoths billions of light-years away, supermassive black holes create jets like nothing else in the cosmos.