In the Florentine Codex, missionary Bernardino de Sahagún famously documented the existence of the “House of the Beasts” in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
In another Spanish account, Conquistador Hernán Cortés placed these…

In the Florentine Codex, missionary Bernardino de Sahagún famously documented the existence of the “House of the Beasts” in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
In another Spanish account, Conquistador Hernán Cortés placed these…

A new study identifies how water becomes ionized under electrochemical conditions. Hydrogen is expected to play a major role in future energy systems, which makes a clear understanding of electrolysis increasingly important. Scientists at the Max…
A new study of climate extremes since 1988 finds that many regions have seen increases in deaths due to floods, storms and extreme temperatures. In human terms, the harm comes not just from deaths, but also from lost labor and property damage….

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – DECEMBER 5: Dr. Robert Malone listens to attorney Aaron Siri during a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on December 5, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
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More than 10,000 years ago, people living in the southwestern United States carried a wild ancestor of the modern potato across long distances. According to a study published January 21, 2026 in the open-access journal PLOS One, this movement…

Measuring the world precisely is much harder than it sounds. At very small scales, nature is noisy, and the rules of quantum physics make even the best instruments slightly uncertain. This limits how accurately scientists can measure things like…

Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news.
Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life.
In a new study, an international team of scientists and I…

There has not been a total solar eclipse since the “Great American Eclipse” on April 8, 2024 — but now, two are coming up in the next two years.
The first of these total solar eclipses, on Aug. 12, 2026, will grace parts of Greenland, Iceland…

These newly discovered spinning crystals twist, break, and heal themselves, revealing a strange new side of solid matter. It may seem hard to believe, but crystals made from spinning components are real. Researchers from Aachen, Düsseldorf,…

Eventbrite’s 2026 Social Study found that many of those surveyed “wish events felt less curated and more real”, indicated that “it’s important that events feel spontaneous or unpredictable”, said that “socializing is ‘somewhat…