How remarkable, I thought, that science is fulfilling, in some sense, that ancient aspiration to decipher some measure of our personal nature and fate.In February, for my birthday,…

It began like any normal pregame in the woods. Naked, alone, hungover, a sweaty sleeping bag in the back of a dusty pickup truck, miles from civilization. Predawn in a narrow Utah…

Wrangel Island carries a certain profoundness, a divine story of a different sort. Life here is postapocalyptic, a kind of rebound. It portends the future. My sponsor is Alexander…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.Researchers explore a loophole that extracts useful energy from a fluid’s seemingly random motion. The secret?…

After a few years of driving, you are able to hold conversations while navigating a busy city. How is this possible without unconscious thought?Photograph by wavebreakmedia / ShutterstockNick…

No doubt if you had the special ability to see beyond the color spectrum, it would benefit not just yourself, but your family and friends, too.PexelsHave you ever wondered how your…

By the time Donald Johnson got the call to come to the crime scene, the victim had been dead for hours. A first responder opened the apartment door to find a woman lying on the edge…

Welcome to the Anthropocene. This greeting is belated, of course. We have all been here the whole 
of our lives, without knowing it for most of our days. The Anthropocene is a span…

One survey of 2,000 people found that if you have only one hangover a month, it adds up to two years of total sick time over the course of a lifetime.Photograph by ShotPrime Studio…

Certain features of human behavior recur regardless of culture.Photograph by NASAArchaeologist Ticia Verveer recently posted a thread on Twitter showing that customer complaints go…