Spirographs, invented in 1962, are toys that create geometric patterns using gears. These designs are used in art and similar patterns can be found in nature.

Several contemporary artists have drawn inspiration from the universe and our relationship with the world to create the Chaosmos exhibition, on view free of charge at the Maif Social Club from ...

It triggered my wide-awake allegiance to the Earth, a jolt of recognizing my deep belonging to it. Are we all reminded, from time to time, of extraordinary things, like our dependence on air and ...

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

Thad McCauley wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. Instead, he became an art teacher. But now his art is in space.

President Donald Trump is renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. But how will that change go into effect – and will ...

"Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal does an "exit interview" with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. They talk AI, tariffs and more ...

A man who was injured during the crush and is being treated at a hospital tells our colleagues on the ground that he went ... is believed to be the largest religious gathering on earth, drawing tens ...

If the biggest security operation ever seen at a Super Bowl wasn't already complicated enough, Trump's last-minute move to ...

Decades prior, the brilliant Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch had explained how our world warms and cools ... any global temperature analysis [for Earth] did not seem right to me,” Hansen ...

Seismic wave data previously suggested the Earth’s hot inner core is slowing its spin. Now, researchers say it’s also ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...