How Humans Are Like Bloodhounds and Bats

The Unlucky Ones: What It Feels Like to Get Struck By Lightning

Astrophysicists have always built tools to see farther. The new tools may make the humans unnecessary

James Webb Space Telescope Captures the Cigar Galaxy’s Brilliant Stellar Halo in Pristine Detail

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The Renaissance didn't begin in Florence. It began six thousand years ago in the Middle East. So argues a new book

Open Thread

Thursday Poem

Reflecting Pool Debacle Is a Shorthand for Trump's Failing Second Term

Guns, Property Rights, and the Second Amendment

What happens when environmental change outpaces life’s ability to adapt?

Why were mysterious ancient humans found in an African cave all female?

What It’s Like to Interview For the Job of “Astronaut”

AI systems out-persuade expert humans

Cities Show How Climate Action Makes Life Better

Open Thread

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

The Secret Origins of 'Conspiracy Theory'

Dinosaurs, crocodilo-pythons, and other monsters populated the “lost world” novels that thrived between the 1880s and 1920s

Open Thread

America's Founders Blended Liberalism and Religion