A rare, favorable tilt of the Moon revealed Mare Orientale, the 'Eastern Sea', along its western edge. The story behind a 3-billion-year-old impact basin and a naming convention that got flipped a century later.
Evolution isn't an engineer, it's a contractor who can never tear the building down. A look at the spine, the eye, wisdom teeth, and childbirth as evidence that the human body is a patchwork, not a masterpiece.
The idea that trees talk to each other has become one of those science-adjacent stories that travels fast and gets simplified faster. Popular accounts tend toward the lyrical: forests as communities, trees as mothers feeding their children, a "wood wide... Continue Reading →
Every night, in a state the brain enters without being asked, we become the authors of experiences we did not choose and cannot fully control. We fly. We sit exams for subjects we never studied. We speak with people who... Continue Reading →
Loneliness has been described as a public health crisis, compared to smoking in its effects on lifespan, and declared an epidemic by health ministers in multiple countries. But until recently, science could say little about what loneliness actually is inside... Continue Reading →
Ask most adults in their forties or fifties and they will tell you the same thing: the years are moving faster than they used to. A decade that once felt endless now seems to compress into a handful of summers.... Continue Reading →
Anyone who has ever been watched by a dog during a moment of grief, or had one push its head against them during an argument, knows the feeling that dogs read us. But the science behind that intuition turns out... Continue Reading →
Most of us already know music can bring old memories flooding back. A song from a particular summer, a wedding dance, a tune that played on a long drive: hear a few bars decades later and the moment returns almost... Continue Reading →
For generations, the idea of regrowing a lost finger, repairing damaged joints, or restoring tissue after a serious injury has belonged to the realm of science fiction. While certain animals such as salamanders can regenerate entire limbs, humans have long... Continue Reading →