July 9 may be one of the shortest days of your life as the Earth's accelerating rotation is expected to make tomorrow fly by ...

Is the world on the cusp of a fleeting instant with the edge of time? July 9, July 22, and August 5, 2025, mark the dates when Earth’s rotation will accelerate just sufficiently to remove 1.3 to 1.51 ...

As the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew, piloted by Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, enters their final week aboard the International Space Station (ISS), they remain laser-focused on completing a ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

Jeneen Interlandi, a domestic correspondent for Opinion and a staff writer at the magazine, writes frequently about public health. For this article, she interviewed dozens of people who have worked ...

These bone-eating communities are ancient, and have been on Earth for at least 100 million years. Before whales existed, bone-eating worms were eating into the skeletons of mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs and ...

One of the most paradoxical aspects of AI is that while it is hailed as the route to abundance, the most important financial outcomes have been about scarcity. The first and most obvious example has ...

DDG, LHD, CVN? Decode key U.S. Navy ship abbreviations and learn what they mean and what vessels they designate.

Did you ever picture a saber-toothed “tiger” stalking prehistoric forests, its long fangs gleaming in the sun? Here’s a fun ...

In the shadow of Chicago’s skyscrapers and beyond the cornfields that stretch across much of Illinois lies a treasure so unexpected and dazzling that it feels like stumbling upon a secret society’s ...