
The Great Fall Bird Migration Has Already Begun—Here’s How to See It
Birds are starting to make their way south for the winter, and you’ve got a front-row seat to the show
The Great Fall Bird Migration Has Already Begun—Here’s How to See It
Birds are starting to make their way south for the winter, and you’ve got a front-row seat to the show
How Teen Mathematician Hannah Cairo Disproved a Major Mathematical Wave Conjecture
Russian Volcano, Dormant for Hundreds of Years, Erupts after Massive Nearby Quake
JWST Spots Ancient Light That Shouldn’t Exist
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Summer Meteor Showers, Short Summer Days and Ancient Arthropods
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Some Mathematicians Don’t Believe in Infinity
Can “finitism” possibly describe the real world?
JWST Spots Ancient Light That Shouldn’t Exist
JWST observations of light sources before the first galaxies should have formed are raising new questions about our galactic origins
Russian Volcano, Dormant for Hundreds of Years, Erupts after Massive Nearby Quake
The Krasheninnikov volcano, located less than 150 miles away from the epicenter of Russia’s July 29 earthquake, began erupting on August 3
Magnitude 3.0 Earthquake Rumbles New York City Less Than 2 Years after the Last Temblor
The magnitude 3.0 earthquake that shook the East Coast came nearly a year and a half after a magnitude 4.8 quake shocked New York City and its surroundings
You Don’t Remember Being a Baby, but Your Brain Was Making Memories
Brain scans capture memory formation in babies, raising new questions about why people forget their earliest years
The Physics of Spinning Black Holes Explained
Scientists are uncovering how spinning black holes launch jets, warp spacetime and shape the cosmos