Finding fossils usually means months of fieldwork, a hammer, and a lot of patience. In Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost region, it took none of that. According to the University of Cambridge, a cluster of rocks had broken loose from a cliff above a sheep field. When they split open on landing, they exposed a fossil of […]

Far-right and far-left parties are celebrating success after success, leaving moderate politicians in the dust and worrying many Germans. Political psychology helps us understand what's behind growing polarization.

A study shows chatbots mirror users' politics, part of a broader tendency known as AI sycophancy. Researchers fear this could deepen polarization.

Quarks, the smallest known building blocks of matter, are never seen alone. They are roughly a billion times smaller than an atom and exist only locked inside larger particles such as protons and neutrons — no one has ever observed one in isolation. That impossibility has a name, confinement, and a strange consequence: try to […]