It visited the ringed planet 46 years ago this month

A beautiful new NASA image of the Carina Nebula

“The explosion packed roughly a billion years of the sun’s energy output into a pencil-thin beam”

An unprecedented find in the Valley of Kings

Take a ride with the spectral cavalcade

New scholarship reveals an exiled Roman client king was a woman

How we talk about good deeds and acts of altruism

And vice versa

Happiness pioneers recently gathered to discuss the good life

And makes recycling a breeze

You don’t need a brain to get fooled

Has the Amazon reached the dreaded tipping point?

And their genomes suggest they’ve adapted to the toxic conditions

Or not, depending on the species

And their friends were quicker to forgive them for their thievery

A conversation with three Harvard professors about the practice of wisdom in everyday living

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith on AI consciousness and existential risk

People who can’t see images in their minds challenge an old philosophical standby