Category Science

Twice a year, millions of people reset their clocks by an hour and complain about it. But according to a new analysis of social media posts, people appear to react…

For generations of kids growing up in cold climates, licking a frozen lamppost has been a dare, a joke, or a mistake waiting to happen. The scene is famously immortalized…

The heavy casualties of the Black Death gave plants free rein to retake landscapes across Europe, but their return to abandoned lands didn’t exactly do wonders for their diversity. After…

When a massive asteroid slams into a planet, the impact can blast chunks of rock into space at incredible speeds. Some of those fragments can eventually land on other worlds,…

Personalized ads are supposed to make shopping easier. Instead, for many people, they’re triggering a visceral sense of unease that’s doing the opposite of what marketers intend. We’ve all been…

Yellowstone National Park’s hundreds of thermal geysers spew water into the sky with dramatic ferocity. Nowhere in the park is this effect more obvious than in the highly active Norris…

NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return Americans to the Moon and create an “enduring presence” on its surface, has announced a major update to its timeline. The previously announced…