Gyorgy Dozsa was a soldier who became the leader of a massive peasant uprising in Hungary during the early 1500s. He had earned a reputation for bravery during wars...
We’re trained to love summer. From the moment you start school, the year splits neatly into term time and those long empty months, and even after you’re...
Starting a new job is supposed to be the beginning of something positive. For Lawrence “Day” Davis, however, his first shift at a factory ended in tragedy...
Most people go through the streets of a busy city without giving much consideration to what is underneath their feet. However, in the case of a man from New York, a late...
Everyone knows soda isn’t great for you. That’s not exactly a revelation. But there’s a difference between having one with lunch and making it the only...
The Universe Started With Almost Nothing, and Somehow It Created Stars, Planets, and Life
Take a look around wherever you’re sitting. Your phone, the walls, the air, your own body. None of the material in any of it existed when the Universe began...
Humans have been around for a blink of Earth’s history. In that time we’ve come through ice ages, plagues, and every kind of disaster the planet could throw...
Think about how much has shifted in the last few decades. Landlines gave way to smartphones. Artificial intelligence went from a research curiosity to something that...
The night sky looks empty. It isn’t. There are thousands of satellites up there right now, along with a great deal of debris, and almost none of us give them a...
We Could Capture a Visitor From Another Star, and It Might Reveal Secrets of an Alien World
Once in a while something drifts into our Solar System that has no business being here. It didn’t form around our Sun. It wasn’t born from the same cloud of...
The Amazon rainforest is one of the largest forests on the globe and is so extensive that it is difficult to conceive of it ever vanishing. However, people are cutting...
Earth depends on countless natural systems working together. The atmosphere, oceans, land, and living organisms constantly influence each other, creating the conditions...


