Editorial Team
A June 2026 United Nations University report puts two country-sized numbers on the physical infrastructure behind cloud computing.
Jul 15, 2026
On February 17, 1977, the research submersible Alvin descended about 2,500 meters to the Galápagos Rift in the eastern Pacific.
Jul 15, 2026
Habitual apologies can have many explanations. For some people, self-blame or conflict avoidance may be involved, but the behavior does not reveal one childhood history.
Jul 15, 2026
On June 3, 1977, Ann Druyan sat still while medical sensors recorded the electrical activity of her heart, brain, eyes and muscles.
Jul 15, 2026
Five minutes versus 10 septillion years is the kind of comparison that makes every ordinary unit of time seem useless.
Jul 14, 2026
King's College London's MAAM study was still ongoing, while a nine-patient case series and other limited research suggest some women report premenstrual symptom worsening. The evidence does not establish a universal hormone pattern or dosing rule.
Jul 14, 2026
Correction, September 20, 2026: The headline was revised to clarify that chinampas were fixed raised fields, predated the Aztec Empire, used canal irrigation and did not establish an unbeaten global productivity record.
Jul 14, 2026
Behind a thin curtain of water in western New York, a flame flickers from a crack in dark shale.
Jul 14, 2026
In 1953, South Korea emerged from war with ruined infrastructure, widespread hunger and an economy near the bottom of the global income scale.
Jul 14, 2026
On March 1, 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander reached the surface of Venus and kept transmitting for 127 minutes.
Jul 14, 2026
Humans look, at first glance, like a poor design for saving water. We have unusually dense eccrine sweat glands, we can sweat heavily for long periods, and our cooling system depends on losing water through the skin.
Jul 14, 2026
A 1996 study of Danish twins helped make a careful, memorable claim about human longevity: genes mattered, but not as much as many people assumed.
Jul 14, 2026
Imagine building something today — anything, a car, a phone, a piece of software — and having someone tell you it needs to still be working perfectly in 2074.
Jul 14, 2026
Most life on Earth is easy to imagine in surface terms: forests, oceans, soils, animals, people.
Jul 14, 2026
