Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4.But surprisingly, we don't know why it's true.By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues...
“Those fire-prone invasive species fill in any gaps anywhere else—roadsides, in between communities, in between people’s homes, all over the place,” Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, told...
Since 2006, the amount of heat-trapping methane in Earth's atmosphere has been rising fast and, unlike the rise in carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane's recent increase seems to be driven by biological emissions,...
According to assembly theory, before Darwinian evolution can proceed, something has to select for multiple copies of high-AI objects from the Assembly Possible. Chemistry alone, Cronin said, might be capable of that—by...
There's a whole world inside your gut, made up of mostly harmless microbes that reside in the gastrointestinal tract.Called the gut microbiome, this dazzling collection of bacteria and other microorganisms has been...
This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At the third meeting of the Moriyama City Firefly Forest Museum’s eight-week Firefly Course, a conservation training program...
Scientists have identified the maximum mix of heat and humidity a human body can survive.Even a healthy young person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) warmth when...
When Suzanne Dodd’s team transmitted a routine command to Voyager 2 on July 21, the unthinkable happened: They accidentally sent the wrong version, which pointed the interstellar probe’s antenna slightly away from...
