23+ hour, 28+ min ago   (977+ words) A new study tries to map why humans can experience beauty collectively By Deniz Vantansever, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis, Xinyu Liang & The Conversation Justin Paget via Getty Images Stand in front of Turner’s Sun Rising Over Water (1825-30) and something odd tends to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (420+ words) A mighty space telescope is dying. Here’s why it mattered NASA’s formidable gamma-ray burst hunter is doomed to soon reenter Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a glaring gap in our view of the high-energy sky How many spaceports does the U.S....

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (302+ words) The looming El Niño conditions, combined with the warming effects of climate change, contributed to the historic temperatures By Mary Randolph edited by Claire Cameron Visitors to Zakrzówek Lake in Kraków, Poland, cool down in water as a heat wave…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (290+ words) Gondwana was much bigger than we thought, according to the new analysis By Mary Randolph edited by Claire Cameron More than 180 million years after the supercontinent Gondwana’s breakup, scientists are still learning the true reach of this prehistoric landmass that…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (446+ words) These strange celestial objects have been hiding in plain sight for decades It’s unclear what these objects actually are, but evidence for them has been detected by NASA’s Chandra space telescope for years By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (703+ words) Up and down the Pacific coast, dead gray whales are mysteriously washing ashore—and scientists think they know why By Ainslie Cruickshank edited by Andrea Thompson As of mid-August, 187 gray whales have been found dead this year along the West…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (376+ words) There’s more to fog than meets the eye By Meghan Bartels edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Researchers are finding microbes thriving in their own ecosystems of fog. Fog has an eerie and enchanting way of coloring how humans perceive our…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (149+ words) By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Pineapple on pizza and rain on weekends shouldn’t exist on Earth, and yet somehow they do. And nor should a mysterious cosmic particle, detected in 2022, have made it…...