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You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.

Does history have a grand narrative, or is it just a random walk to no place in particular? And is the world as we know it about to change?

Some artifacts drown in shipwrecks, others are taken by the tide. Many others will vanish as a result of climate change and rising sea levels.

Moments of social anxiety around truth tend to be accompanied by similar “fool the eye” pop culture phenomena.

Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.

Earth wasn’t created until more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang. In some lucky places, life could have arisen almost right away.

Gigantic ranges called “supermountains” formed twice in Earth’s history, and they may have had a profound influence on evolutionary history.

Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.

Today’s careers don’t offer a clear path forward, but the rewards can be worth more than a gold watch at retirement.

Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.

The meaning of the cryptic text has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights into the medieval enigma.

Financial illiteracy can become a significant problem. But it’s a problem with a clear solution.

Atomic nuclei form in minutes, atoms form in hundreds of thousands of years, but the “dark ages” rule thereafter, until stars finally form.

For generations, physicists have been searching for a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity isn’t actually quantum at all?

When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as “analysis paralysis.” Why? Isn’t choice a good thing?

When what we predict and what we measure don’t add up, that’s a sign there’s something new to learn. Could it be a new fundamental force?

Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.

It’s been 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. But if it’s expanding, then what is it expanding into?

A new bridge joins a divided Croatia, but it cuts Bosnia out of Europe — literally and figuratively. A bridge meant to unite also divides.

Alexandre Dumas’ famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.

It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.

A new study suggests that hunting dogs’ barks convey emotional information about the animals they see.

Would you want to live in any of these places?

Take a look at the Times Square Totem, the Trafalgar Square Pyramid, and other landmarks that were never built.

Prison is an unreliable method of punishment. Let’s do better.

In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.

Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?

Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?

In 1054, a core-collapse supernova occurred 6500 light-years away. In 2023, JWST imaged the remnant, and might solve a massive mystery.

We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.