Suppose you’re given a message to be delivered to a specific person as fast as possible. Here’s the problem, though: you don’t personally know the
Is it possible to predict the future by slicing open a farm animal and peering inside its liver? Scientists of the 21st century would surely
If someone asked you to weigh the planet and you had not paid close attention in high school physics, you might have no idea where
On April 15, 1912, an iceberg brought down a ship once thought to be unsinkable. The Titanic was the largest ocean liner of its time
This week, research into the evolutionary origins of kissing has revealed that our ancient ancestors were smooching around 21 million years ago, new footage may
The evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming, yet we cannot truly describe what happens in that event. We cannot even call it a moment
People over on Reddit are once again (see also: why we can’t power trucks with a big magnet) asking the big questions: is it more
The Trump administration announced earlier this week its proposal to make changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), limiting protections given to plants and animals
Neanderthals in what is now Belgium may have eaten the weakest members of an enemy clan around 45,000 years ago. Analyzing the bones of these
As this is written, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission is taking images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, providing an angle Earth-based telescopes can’t offer.
A two-decade-old NASA telescope is on an unstable orbit, and there is a 90 percent chance that it might come burning down in an uncontrolled
Last week, Blue Origin launched its first interplanetary mission, two spacecraft bound for Mars. It also performed its first successful landing of its New Glenn
We love seeing things in other things: rocks, houses, plugs, all become faces. In the sky, the constellations linked myths and legends with distant and
How do you tell large dangerous animals apart while staying safe? Well, one way for lions has been to identify them through their roar. For
It’s that time of year again, when the Cambridge Dictionary announces the word that it feels best defines the last 12 months. For 2025, the
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From the very first images, JWST showed that it was going to be a revolutionary instrument, and yet it continues to surprise us. New observations
