A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a photon-based quantum computer it says should easily scale up. What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

Ran Tellem, executive producer of The Head, takes DQ inside the making of the survival thriller’s third and final season, explains how its locations and storytelling style have evolved and reveals why ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years — and pinpoints why.

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

Netflix's 3 Body Problem is a heady sci-fi show based on the Chinese novel series Remembrance of Earth's Past by Liu Cixin.

For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka.

The world endured three of its top-20 costliest disasters on record in 2024, its fifth-deadliest wildfire, and a record three ...

Aurora also offers two shorter expeditions in 2026: the 17-day Arctic Golden Autumn & Northern Lights itinerary in August and ...