With the spring approaching, it's time to start thinking about how you'll file your taxes. Unfortunately, with the recent demise of Direct File, there isn't a free, government-provided alt...
Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable in the first half of the 20th century. Two major breakthroughs that occurred in physics — ...
For most of human history, movement was inseparable from survival. Deliberately burning energy for no immediate purpose would have made little sense in a world where calories were scarce and bodies we...
These days, we often consider nostalgia to be a complicated but mostly harmless emotion. It’s full of pathos but, like heartache, it’s something you live with or get over. But it has not always ...
When I first met Rashida, she introduced herself with a disclaimer: “I’m a little intense.” She said it with a grimace, as if the label left a bad taste in her mouth. I replied, “Good to know. What el...
Young Europeans join far-Right movements less out of grievance than out of a profound yearning to believe and belong- by Agnieszka PasiekaRead on Aeon
A documentary connecting two Singapores: the Asian country expanded on imported sand and a town in Michigan buried by dunes- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
We've all dealt with bad internet connections. But could the entire internet ever collapse?
The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about countless stars.
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.
The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, Pandora.
How did Romans invest their wealth in ancient times?
Flu season in the U.S. is particularly bad this year, and a new branch of the flu family tree may be to blame.
Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal interactions in ways that could help us treat drug-resistant infections.
Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.
Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.