Over at the Atlantic, Alan Taylor has collected a bunch of photos showing just how hard China is pushing on solar energy. As ...

Twenty years! It’s been twenty years since Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm was released. To celebrate, the band stopped by the NPR office’s for a Tiny Desk Concert.

Twenty years! It’s been twenty years since Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm was released. To celebrate, the band stopped by the NPR office’s for a Tiny Desk Concert. Big thanks to Arcustech for ...

Here are some of the winners, finalists, and nominees from the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition and ...

I am only a couple of chapters into James McBride’s Deacon King Kong (loving it!) and in the first chapter, there’s a ...

Wanting to get away from manufactured perfection, artist Wang Mansheng makes his own paint brushes. Manufactured things are, yo ...

Wanting to get away from manufactured perfection, artist Wang Mansheng makes his own paint brushes. Big thanks to Arcustech for hosting the site and offering amazing tech support.

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

Ah, this is awesome: Great Art Explained is one of my favorite YouTube channels and there’s a book version coming out in the ...

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an ...

Baggage is a short, stop-animation film by Lucy Davidson about the sometimes unpleasant experience of being seen — when going th ...

In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen tho ...