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A decagon – a geometric polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles – has been found on Saturn, and nobody is quite sure how it got there

The relentless heatwaves that have hit the northern hemisphere this summer have made the climate threat real for many – but preparation and adaptation will take us only so far

Feedback goes down an AI rabbit hole after discovering that the internet is making up stories about epidemiologist and mathematician Adam Kucharski - and that his wife has had to weigh in

Why hasn’t evolution reintroduced gills in the land-based mammals that returned to the sea? And what is the fastest way to empty a full jug of water?

Readers continue to share their two cents on how best to keep your cocktail cool

One reader delves into whether or not fish can see air – and question if humans can strictly see water

Readers offer different perspectives on the fate of life on Earth should the sun vanish – and there may be hope for some

People are born old in their graves and get more robust over life, only to shrink into babies who are pushed into their mother’s womb. The ambitious Under Story conjures a disconcerting, “backwards” world, finds science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson

In Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi's The Ghost of the Mountains, the near-spiritual myth of the elusive snow leopard becomes a way of understanding all that we stand to lose from the forces of climate change

Are these floating houses in Amsterdam’s IJburg district the shape of things to come? Check out Floating Futures, a new series by photojournalist Alessandro Gandolfi