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To put things in perspective, the cost of sequencing a single genome in 2012 was around $10,000.

France is split in two by its very own “desert,” the Empty Diagonal. The area’s depopulation is fairly recent, and Paris is to blame.

Online learning has become the new normal, but it isn’t without its challenges.

Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.

The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?

When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four “spikes” coming from it. Here’s why Webb will have more.

One of the scariest films of the 1970s didn’t set out to be a horror film at all.

Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.

Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.

Are you a striver or a pioneer?

Scallop shells have accompanied pilgrims to and from Santiago de Compostela for centuries, for more than one reason

Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.

OmnesViae is a modern route planner based on the roads of the Roman Empire.

Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.

There’s a limit to how large planets can be, and it’s only about double the radius of Jupiter. At least, so far.

Instead of liberation, the sexual revolution has led some people, particularly men, to be addicted to porn.

The rhetorical fallout is greater than the radioactive fallout.

Embedded in a cell phone or in accessories such as rings, bracelets or watches, the novel tools aim to make it easier to manage hypertension. But they must still pass several tests before hitting the clinic.

The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.

Searching for truth in unorthodox ways can be a valuable exercise. But Anatoly Fomenko’s alternate world history is just plain weird.

The separation of conjoined twins is fraught with stomach-churning biomedical and ethical challenges.

Horses pranced around the western hemisphere until they went extinct in the late Holocene. They were reintroduced by European colonists — though where, when, and how has remained unclear.

In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, there were only free protons and neutrons: no atomic nuclei. How did the first elements form from them?

According to surveys, approximately half of artificial intelligence experts believe that general AI will emerge by 2060.

Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.

After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.

In “The History of Western Philosophy,” Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn’t.

By building a learning culture, L&D leaders can equip their organizations to adapt to a business world that is transforming before our eyes.