The natural world has brewed up a spooky ‘skull’ in a deep volcanic pit in the Sahara Desert.
From space, the sight really does look like a ghostly apparition – a white face glowering from our planet’s rocky skin.
Cosmology challenges some of the most fundamental questions we have about our existence – how did this all begin? How will it end?
For decades, astronomers have been exploring the Universe around us, using new technology and insights to better…
Back in 2006, a team of chemists began a project to understand how the soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor produces the antibiotic methylenomycin A. Little did they know at the time that their investigation would lead to the discovery of an…
Few websites are more foundational to the web than Wikipedia.
The online encyclopedia was founded almost 25 years ago by Jimmy Wales, who at the time was working on an expert-led project called Nupedia.
Nupedia didn’t work out, but its…
It’s a crisp, fall day in mid-November, and though your calendar is filled with…
Once called “America’s last jaguar,” the solitary male wandered across the southern border in 2011 and became the centerpiece of a campaign to protect habitat in the Santa Rita Mountains
Scientists have spotted orcas hunting a nursery of juvenile sharks for the first time,…
