Science

The Solar System’s Most Volcanic Moon Has Been This Way For Billions Of Years

A recent study confirms that Io has always been a landscape of fiery lava and violent volcanic eruptions.

Can NASA's Mars Sample Return Program Be Saved? Some Experts Think So

The quest continues to bring pristine Mars rocks to Earth.

Wellness Culture Today Forgot About One Giant Idea From the Original 1970s Movement

Wellness wasn’t all colonics and Goop cruises.

Look! A Black Hole 33 Times More Massive Than Our Sun Was Hiding In Plain Sight

Astronomers just discovered the largest black hole in our galaxy. It was forged by a dead star.

Is Dark Matter Real? Inside the Theories That Leave This Mysterious Phenomenon Out

Is there more to the universe than meets the eye, or are the rules different than we thought? (Spoiler alert: it's probably the first one.)

Brain Scans Of Jazz Musicians Could Unlock The Mystery Of Creative Flow

What brain science can tell us about flow, or being “in the zone.”

Sleeping With Your Pets Could Be Bad For This Unexpected Reason

Sleeping with your dog in the same room could be negatively affecting your sleep quality, according to new research.

A Scientist Found Something Truly Bizarre Inside A Fossilized Dinosaur Eggshell

“I heard a gleeful exclamation from across the room.”

Ancient Australians May Have Used the Great Barrier Reef to Survive Even Earlier Than We Thought

The deepest cultural material was found nearly two meters below the surface, in levels we radiocarbon dated to around 6,500 years ago.

Astronomers Just Used A Bizarre New Method To Capture Evidence of Elusive Stellar Winds

The researchers used creative methods to observe the sea of charged particles from three extremely bright stars.