On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is. Some 4 billion ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler For Willie Shubert, journalism is a kind of cartography. “I studied geography,” he says. Mapmaking taught him how to see the world as a system. That systems view now guides his ...

The Bookseller’s Hotlists are literary agencies’ top manuscripts out on submission with UK and international publishers, compiled by Tom Tivnan for the London, Bologna and Frankfurt book fairs. Each ...

What if there were a technology that could help to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, air pollution and environmental degradation, while improving health, reducing social inequality and boosting ...

Before delivery apps, dinner often meant hours of slow cooking that turned simple ingredients into something unforgettable.

Here are 7 odd things mothers do with leftover food that make sense only inside their minds—and, somehow, in your mouth. Open a mom’s freezer and you’ll discover epochs. There’s the labeled era (“VEG ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

The first time I heard the term “loneliness epidemic,” it gave me pause. I’d always thought of an epidemic as an outbreak of disease, and while loneliness is emotionally painful, I hadn’t realized it ...

Despite all their rage, sometimes Billy Corgan & co. made some of the most perfectly tranquil music of the 90s ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...