The War on Charlie Chaplin (www.newyorker.com)
He was one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved stars. Then his adopted country turned against him.
He was one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved stars. Then his adopted country turned against him.
An algorithm has worked out how to make an efficient catalyst for oxygen production on the Red Planet.
A mysterious primate appeared in North America 30 million years ago, long after the continent's native primates had died out, and even longer before the next big influx of primates – humans – would arrive.
Graphyte, a Bill Gates-backed startup, says it can remove carbon from the atmosphere for $100 per ton.
Fyodor Savintsev’s photographs of the small wooden cottages capture the aesthetics and ethos of “a slower, more traditional pace of life.”
The research, which comes with important caveats, was partly an effort to address the scientific uproar surrounding an earlier paper.
The rise of electric vehicles stands out as a bright spot in the effort to cut down on emissions.
A team of archaeologists, geophysicists, geologists, and paleontologists affiliated with multiple institutions in Indonesia has found evidence showing that Gunung Padang is the oldest known pyramid in the world. In their paper published in the journal Archaeological Prospection, the group describes their multi-year study of the...
The most complete maps we have of the ocean floor lag far behind the maps we have of the moon.
In a first, researchers discovered oxygen atoms on the dayside and nightside of Venus' atmosphere.
There's now an FDA-approved vaccine for chikungunya, a mosquito-spread virus that can cause fever, severe joint pain, and rarely, death.
We know now that they’re in zippers.
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
For tie aficionados, knots are an art form—and a surprisingly difficult math problem.
Rather than throw its old head cases away, the gum leaf skeletonizer wears them like a hat to protect itself from predators.
Ben Davis on the fallout from his critical review of Devon Rodriguez's "Underground," and what it says about "parasocial aesthetics."
Surgeons transplanted part of a face and an entire eyeball into a man with severe electrical burns. He is not yet able to see out of the eye, but preliminary evidence suggests it may retain some function
Indonesia has unveiled its largest floating solar plant to date which covers 250 hectares and has a capacity of around 245 gigawatt-hours a year.
Researchers have investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations' exposures to weather extremes under climate conditions at the end of the 21st century.
A new survey by ArtTable finds widespread reports of low pay, debt, and work-related expenses in art jobs, especially affecting women.
Microfossils from Western Australia may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team of scientists.
The interaction was captured using a specialized piece of kit called a transmission electron microscope.
Male frogs often mistake other species, objects, and even lifeless frogs for mates, a mix-up known as misdirected amplexus. Learn why this mating mistake could be millions of years old.
Say you are me (sorry about that) and you are minding your own business online, just trying to survive in a world of unrelenting horror when suddenly you are served an ad. Because of the dark…