What is a science book that inspired a sense of wonder or made you more curious about the world?

What exactly is … everything? What is space-time? At one extreme, you’ve got the weird rules of quantum physics that deal with subatomic particles. At the other extreme, you’ve got the vast expanses ...

For years, Asheville, North Carolina, has been billed as a “climate haven,” a place safe from the touch of climate change-exacerbated disasters. But last month, Hurricane Helene called that label into ...

An image of Hurricane Milton approaching Florida, as seen from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite at 6:30 p.m. EDT on October 8, 2024. Credit: NOAA On October 9, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Siesta Key, ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that ...

As highways have become almost ubiquitous in the US, motorists travel faster and farther—resulting in more traffic.

Why ask, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" when you can instead consider, "Why did the road cross the land?" ...

Listen to Universe of Art on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or your favorite podcasting app. A moment from a performance of “The Moth Project.” Credit: Marvin Zana. Before ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. You can read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email newsletter, or send us a ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Origin by Jennifer Raff. You can read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email newsletter, or send us a message via our ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club page about Fire Weather by John Vaillant. You can read the book, join our community space, attend an event, sign up for our email newsletter, or send us a message via ...

Researchers studying tracks fossilized in Cretaceous-era lakeshore mud in what is now South Korea argue this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the dinosaur footprints are ...