Valentine's Day is celebrated as a day of love and romance, with people exchanging sweets and gifts to express their affection. Here are 25 fun facts to know about the annual holiday on Feb 14.

The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desk has had a busy 2025: Our writers have spent the year probing the limits of human consciousness and gene-editing technology, studying the ubiquity of ...

A newly restored 17th-century map of the stars and planets is going on display for the first time in England. As one of only 20 surviving copies of the Dutch mapmaker Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia ...

Imagining familiar images in the sky has always been an easy way to track the annual progress of the stars. Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ...

This fall, the French fashion house Celine will release a miniature version of a work by the artist Jean Arp — in the form of a pendant. By Megan Conway In 1952, the German-French artist Jean Arp made ...

There’s a reason fun facts are called fun facts. It’s always entertaining to discover a new and interesting or shocking piece of trivia to share with your friends, family, partner, the mailperson, ...

Macy Alcido is a former writer for Forbes Health, based in New York City. She discovered her love for health reporting while attending the Columbia Journalism School, and has since contributed ...

Cephalopods, like humans, have camera-like eyes that focus light with a lens. The two-spot octopus gets its name from the ocelli, or iridescent blue spots, which are false eyes to startle predators ...

Ground-breaking books by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo showed what our cosmos truly looked like, inspiring artists and scientists for centuries afterwards ...