Science

[:es]Most geodes—hollow, crystal-lined rocks—can fit in the palm of your hand. But the giant Pulpí Geode, which is about half the size of a small bedroom, fills part of an […]

[:es]Brain scientists can watch neurons fire and communicate. They can map how brain regions light up during sensation, decision-making, and speech. What they can’t explain is how all this activity […]

[:es]Two years ago, a barely submerged volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands released giant bubbles of gas, some of which were broader than the world’s largest humanmade dome, the 310-meter-wide National […]

[:es]A project to monitor every aspect of a fast-shrinking glacier could hold an answer to an urgent question: How fast will seas rise?[:]

[:es]In the bowels of Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, Jasmina Wiemann yanks open a drawer in a floor-to-ceiling specimen cabinet. She lifts out a wickedly sharp, sickle-shaped dinosaur […]

[:es]Just weeks after the discovery of the second-ever comet from outside of our solar system (the first was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua), astronomers have detected gas emitted from its surface—the first […]

[:es]Archaeologists and architects alike have long wondered why 15th century Incans built the grand citadel of Machu Picchu where they did, high in the remote Andes atop a narrow ridge […]

[:es]How many fish really appear in the photo collage above? The answer bears on whether a study about lionfish social behavior, published in Biology Letters in 2014, was fabricated—and whether […]

[:es]The age of quantum computing may have begun not with a flashy press conference but with an internet leak. According to a paper posted briefly–and presumably mistakenly–to a lab site, […]