Mountain gorilla from the Susa Group in Karisimbi thicket, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda (Emmanuel Kwizera / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0). The threat to Rwanda’s mountain gorillas is no longer ...
A gift of more than $5.5 million from Anna and Greg Brockman — Greg being the cofounder and president of OpenAI — closed the gap on a roughly $10 million community fundraising target and cleared the ...
An ice cave on Earth, used here as a representative image of a water reservoir hidden beneath thick ice. It does not show Ganymede, its surface or its subsurface ocean. Photo by Han-Chieh Lee on ...
The pitch drop experiment with custodian John Mainstone, University of Queensland. Photo: John Mainstone / University of Queensland, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 1927, a physics professor ...
An Artemis II astronaut photographed the cratered Moon and crescent Earth from Orion in April 2026. Credit: NASA. The image is illustrative and is not one of the microbial-survival maps from the study ...
The experiment at Oregon State University’s research farm in Corvallis was set up like a fair fight. Two groups of weaned Polypay lambs, matched and weighed. Two pastures side by side: one open to the ...
Thematic only: dry landslide terrain at Tuinkhola, Nepal (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0). Not a photo of the August 2026 flood victims. Rescue crews working in flood-hit areas of northern Nepal are ...
Maple syrup sugarhouses, shown as a thematic illustration of a hypothetical retirement example. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a Vermont sugarmaker retiring with roughly 800 gallons of ...
Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...
Picture a mound of clothing so large you can see it from orbit. Jeans, fleece jackets, cheap party dresses, some with the tags still on, piled across the driest desert on Earth. This is real. It sits ...
There is a particular kind of quiet that settles around some retired men. It shows up at family lunches, on park benches in the morning, at extended-family gatherings where they used to hold court.