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What we know—and don’t know—about a crucial climate tipping point.

When it comes to tinkering with nature, our résumé is a list of breathtaking mistakes.

David Gibbins on his 3 greatest revelations while writing A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks.

The importance of feeling small and insignificant.

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.

Making art out of an invisible world that shapes human health and disease.

A new study says climate change is messing with the math.

How a shared love of algae got a community of women hooked on marine science.

For some, a night without sleep causes mood-boosting changes in the brain.

Why it's time for new ways of naming life.

The timbre of a violin or a sitar can affect how dissonant music sounds to us.