Blooming seas were recorded around the Chatham Islands in January 2026, after satellite images showed large swirls of colour spreading across the Paci.

At about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of New Zealand’s South Island, the sparsely populated Chatham Islands are rugged, ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

I cannot remember when I originally heard the phrase “from scratch,” but I realize those words have been with me since I was little. I am clear my mother was the first who said it to me, probably on a ...

Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is now southern England, a group of Neandertals struck chunks of iron pyrite against flint to create sparks, ...

While the merits of making your bed are many, science may support leaving it a mess. For years, experts have maintained that the morning ritual can help you sleep better, have more sex, boost ...

It was “an unfathomable sum” for two fellows who had struggled to get into the industry, Todd James Pierce tells us in “Making Mary Poppins,” an illuminating microhistory of the brothers, their ...

In this video I see how fast we can get a radiometer to spin by shining the world's brightest flashlight on it. Then I talk about the real reason the Crookes radiometer spins when you shine light on ...