26 facts about deep space that will genuinely unsettle you

From rogue planets drifting in total darkness to stars older than the universe seems to allow, deep space is far stranger than any science fiction [...]

Every Time Norway Scores at the World Cup the City of Bergen Trembles

This curious phenomenon was documented by the seismometer at the University of Bergen, which recorded slight vibrations whenever the national team scored a goal. [...]

Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork

The small bit of air in the bottle sees oxygen and other chemicals move in and out. [...]

Thousands Feared Dead After Venezuela Struck by Strongest Earthquake in Over 125 Years

The country's interim leader declared a state of emergency on Wednesday following shocks measuring 7.5 magnitude after two quakes hit in less than a minute. [...]

Colossal and the US Government Are Creating an Endangered Species ‘BioVault’

The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place. [...]

The "sad inevitability" of Europe's heat wave

Europeans are baking under their second heat wave of the summer. [...]

New effort will get genome sequences for entire Endangered Species list

Colossal Biosciences will be biobanking tissues from all of them as well. [...]

Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating

"There is no natural explanation," says paleoanthropologist John Hawks. [...]

25 things the microscopic world is doing that you had no idea about

Most of the most extraordinary things happening in the world right now are too small to see — and understanding them changes how you think about almost everything [...]