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Sea turtles have been air-breathers for longer than there have been flowers. So why do they keep drowning?

On the three-hour Gremlins assembly cut that sat unseen for forty years — and what it means that a film can exist in multiple states at once.

Some words carry their contradiction inside them — and the fact that we don't notice is the most interesting part.

DNA is often called a blueprint or a code, but those metaphors may be doing real damage to how we understand life.

A 19th-century Army lieutenant figured out how to forecast tornadoes — and was immediately ordered to never mention them again.

A new proof about sloppy card shuffling quietly reveals something strange: randomness has a threshold, and crossing it looks nothing like you'd expect.

Quanta Magazine asked how many elementary particles there are. The answer, it turns out, depends on what you think a particle is.

A new category of geological object is forming right now — made of human debris fused into stone — and it breaks the definition of 'natural' in ways that are hard to argue with.