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Researchers are learning more about limerence, the term for obsessive, involuntary love that is often unreturned

Dagomar Degroot’s three greatest revelations while writing Ripples on a Cosmic Ocean

Powerful storms like Hurricane Melissa foment an odd phenomenon called the “stadium effect” at their centers

A brazen plan to grow an animal that has been the bane of sailors for centuries—to feed the world

A plan to use ions to clear out the crowded low Earth orbit

And shifting battles with rats: New discoveries take flight during Bat Week

The remarkable accuracy behind the Maya people’s eclipse forecasts may have emerged from an astrological calendar system that could still hold true

A vulnerable moment for one of Earth’s most resilient creatures

This ocean on a chip unlocks the mysteries of rogue waves, tsunamis, and other aquatic oddities

A 600-year-old temple was likely designed to amplify drum beats and music

Inside the massive, granite slab slumbering beneath the frozen continent

Slow-motion video reveals how these strikes could kill you, in surprisingly different ways