Space travel didn’t begin with rockets — it began with stargazing. From Ptolemaic astronomy to early Chinese rocketry, ancient thinkers laid the groundwork for humanity’s leap beyond Earth. This is ...

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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 ...

Santa inspired by St. Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop known for kindness and secret gift-giving. Santa's red suit popularized by Coca-Cola, earlier depictions showed him in bishop's attire. Santa's ...

Apple TV+ being a much smaller and more curated streaming platform than a rival like Netflix means that it doesn't have as many of the problems of the latter — such as, for example, a large glut of ...

The season is known as both “fall” and “autumn.” The word “autumn” comes from Latin, while “fall” originated in 17th-century Britain as a shortening of the phrase “fall of the leaf.” While both are ...

The popular maxim that “facts don’t care about your feelings” has become a touchstone of modern debate. It suggests that truth is harsh and objective, immune to the influence—or distortion—of emotion.