Colossal monsters lurk in the centers of all galaxies. Known as supermassive black holes, these gravitational beasts can have millions to billions of times more mass than the sun.
For decades, astronomers have wondered where these behemoths came…

Colossal monsters lurk in the centers of all galaxies. Known as supermassive black holes, these gravitational beasts can have millions to billions of times more mass than the sun.
For decades, astronomers have wondered where these behemoths came…

President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly into the spotlight. But while geopolitical chatter can make it sound as though the Danish territory’s precious metals…

Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ice, dubbed Ih, with the h referring to…

Such is the vastness of Antarctica, in addition to the relatively little amount of time humans spend there, we perhaps shouldn’t be too surprised to learn there are many unknowns about the Earth’s southernmost continent.
One such mystery…

Sci-fi loves a multiverse. Everyone from Rick and Morty to Spider-Man has stepped through a portal and met their alter egos. My personal favorite use of this trope comes from the sitcom Community, where a simple die roll splits our…

January 23, 2026
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Dolphins with more close friends age more slowly
A study of dolphins’ epigenetic ages found that animals with more high-quality friendships were biologically younger than their lonely peers

An outbreak of the flesh-eating New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) has killed seven people and infected at least 1,190 more across Mexico and South America, and now the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention is…

When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as February 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide Orion spacecraft with the understanding that it has a known flaw — one that has…

Chinese scientists have increased the yield of a carbon dioxide-to-starch conversion method by more than 10 times, potentially paving the way for industrial starch production without the need for agriculture.
In 2021, researchers from the Tianjin…

QUICK FACTS
Name: Chocolate Hills
Location: Bohol, Philippines
Coordinates: 9.8297, 124.1396
Why it’s incredible: The hills change color with the seasons, inspiring legends that giants formed the mounds from mud.
The Chocolate Hills are a formation…