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How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous!
My wife “Halley” and I have been married for a little over four years and we have a 1-year-old child. Last…

After becoming the first humans to fly over the Earth’s poles in space, a crew of private astronauts — or space tourists, depending on your perspective — report that the world’s southernmost continent is indeed a vast expanse of snow and…


Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far beneath researchers’ feet.
Earth’s continents have regions of very old and stable rocks, known as cratons, surrounded…

Today, oxygen makes up about 21% of our atmosphere, but it wasn’t always so plentiful. Around 2.7 billion years ago, cyanobacteria—aquatic bacteria that generate energy through…

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New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark…

Scientists announced on Wednesday (April 2) that they successfully fermented miso aboard the International Space Station, marking the first deliberate food fermentation in space that may open up new culinary possibilities for astronauts on…

Three well-known sites that help users avoid paywalls mysteriously redirected users to Russian state-controlled international media outlet RT’s website for at least five days as of Tuesday, with one — archive.is — still sending users to RT…

The first humans to orbit Earth from pole to pole are sharing some of the amazing views they’re witnessing from space.
The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Fram2 mission are on their third day aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience, and are beaming content…