Cassie Bongiovanni’s favorite way to show people just how little we know about the seafloor is to open the mapping software on her computer and strip the world map down to what we do know about the ...

Speech contains a lot of information in it besides just the content of your words. Pauses, tone, emphasis, and more can convey a lot of meaning on their own. But according to a new paper published in ...

In the last few years, there’s been a lot of interest in calorie-restricted diets for weight loss. These can vary significantly, from intermittent fasting (where you restrict eating to a certain ...

Our digital age presents a paradox, says Icelandic sociologist Vidar Halldorsson. Though humans are more connected and accessible to one another in a global and immediate way, our ability to actually ...

In Isaac Asimov’s 1942 story Runaround, a robot named SPD-13 (Speedy) malfunctions while on a critical mission to save his human operators from roasting to death under the planet Mercury’s relentless ...

Around 631,000 years ago—a geological blink of an eye—catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life ...

Unlike scaly reptiles, frogs aren’t well-armored. But a recent study published in the journal Animal Microbiome shows that some frogs do sport hidden armor for defense in their battle against ...

As summer wanes, we’re entering curl-up-with-a-good-book-in-a-cozy-nook season. Bring it on, I say. All the better if it’s a nice, meaty title that gives your grey matter something to chew over. These ...

Over the last 15 years or so, there’s been a huge shift in the way our cities are lit—and NASA astronaut Don Pettit has the photos to prove it. Pettit has spent almost 600 days in space snapping ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Peter Jones once treated a patient with strikingly vivid hallucinations of animals. During ward visits, the patient would stroke and interact ...

“The abyssal plain covers half of the surface of the Earth, but far less than one percent of it has ever been seen,” begins the trailer for new deep-sea documentary, How Deep Is Your Love. Thanks to ...

You don’t actually need to take 10,000 steps a day to stay fit. That figure comes from the marketing campaign for a Japanese pedometer called the Manpo-Kei, which translates to “10,000 steps meter.” ...