Pollinators, including bees, butterflies, and beetles, shape global food production and support vast natural ecosystems. For ...
Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...
Taam Ja reveals a 274-meter abyss in Chetumal Bay, the second-deepest blue hole on the planet and a mystery hidden beneath ...
A recent study by the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and Northeastern University highlights how climate change ...
The rare Froschauer Old Testament survives in only a handful of copies worldwide, including one in Trinity College ...
Shows they evolved flight-ready brains in different ways from birds ATHENS – Flight is a rare skill in the animal world.
A single misdrawn page in a 500-year-old Bible quietly rewired how Europeans imagined the world, and its influence still ...
Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.” ...
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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...
Cities shape access to clean water. Compact growth helps millions reach pipes and sewage, while sprawling cities make ...
The study introduces a three-circle convergence framework, AI, smart functionality and sustainability, demonstrating that the ...
In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.