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Patrick Redford

JERSEY CITY, NJ - JUNE 8: The sun is shrouded as it rises in a smokey sky behind the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and One Vanderbilt in New York City on June 8, 2023, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Climate

It’s All The Same Fire

charismatic megafauna (they/them)

Sabrina Imbler

A close-up of a clay model from Mesopotamia that dates back to 1800 BCE, depicting a nude couple kissing and copulating.

Science

When Was The First Sexy Kiss?

Albert Burneko

Elon Musk and the Cybertruck, in front of a digital readout bragging about the caliber of gunfire it can withstand for some reason.

The Machines

Get A Load Of This Sorry Piece Of Crap

Barry Petchesky

Museum educator Sabine Liener-Kraft looks at the replica of a skull of a Neanderthal a day before the official opening of the new State Museum of Archeology in Chemnitz, Germany, 14 May 2014. About 6,000 exhibits shed light on 300,000 years of human history. The conversion of the building from a shopping center into the museum cost 31 million Euro with another 13,5 million for the permanent exhibition. Photo: HENDRIK SCHMIDT/dpa | usage worldwide (Photo by Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Neanderthals Just Sat There And Watched Us Go Pew Pew Pew With Our Cool Bow And Arrow

DHI QAR, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 15: British Museum and Iraqi archaeologists carry out excavations in the ancient city of Girsu, the capital of the Kingdom of Lagash in Dhi Qar, Iraq on November 15, 2021. (Photo by Arshad Mohammed/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

I Desperately Want To Have A Beer At This Ancient Sumerian Bar

Old-timey scientists fiddle with knobs and toggles on a contraption

Are Your Memories Indexed By Year?

How Will We Find Alien Life?

BAY OF BISCAY, SPAIN: Tanker under dark clouds in The Bay of Biscay north of Santander in the Atlantic Ocean, Spain

Arts And Culture

Goodbye To Dark Sky, The Only Good Weather App

People watch the landing of NASA's InSight spacecraft on the planet Mars on television screens at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California on November 26, 2018. - Cheers and applause erupted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a $993 million unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on the Red Planet and managed to send back its first picture. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Goodbye To InSight, The Lander That Uncovered Mars’s Innermost Secrets

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Chris Thompson

What’s All This Nuclear Fusion Business? Allow Me, A True Expert, To Explain

Artemis Is Our Ticket Out Of Here

An Oral History Of The Time Six Doctors Swallowed Lego Heads To See How Long They’d Take To Poo

The Most Exciting Thing In Science Is When We Find Out We Were Wrong

Folks, We’ve Got A New Animal Friendship

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar waving a bland hello except his bottom half is long trailing jellyfish tentacles

We Can Do So Much Better Than Legs

Justin Ellis

Life's Rich Pageant

Humanity Can, Should, And Must Keep Hucking Shit Against The Stars

A general view of Trix the female the T-Rex exhibition at the Naturalis or Natural History Museum of Leiden on October 17, 2016 in Leiden, Netherlands. The skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex was excavated in 2013 in Montana, USA, by Naturalis Biodiversity Center. The fossil is part of the Naturalis collection and is more than 80% of the bone volume present. All essential and high­volume bones are in place. This places Trix in the top 3 ranking of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons in the world. In addition, all the bones are extremely well preserved. The quality of this fossil is unmatched by any other large T-Rex find in the world.

The T. Rex Species Saga, Explained

Title Earth glinting in the sun Released 17/07/2014 1:15 pm Copyright ESA/NASA Description Earth seen from space. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is sharing his incredible views from 400 km above on the International Space Station. Alexander will run over 100 experiments for all space agencies during his six-month Blue Dot mission.

Earth, The True GOAT, Breaks Longstanding Speed Record

Rays Week

The Universe Came To Us

What Are Those? Norwegian Archeologists Reveal Iron Age Hooper’s Malformed Kicks

Good News For Species Sick Of Existing: Scientists Have Taught An AI How To Manipulate Jillion-Degree Plasma

Scientists Move Another Step Closer To Harnessing The Unfathomable Power Of A Star

When The International Space Station Dies, We’ll Lose More Than A Big Hunk Of Metal

Ganymede Global Geologic Map and Global Image Mosaic