Not even day three into the cycle yet.
The moon is barely waking up. Just starting to peek out from behind the darkness. You won’t...
Thirteen days. That’s how long parts of southern England have been baking, unbroken.
Merryfield in Somerset hit 30.6°C (87.1°F) on Thursday. It makes for twelve...
SpaceX is slipping.
Not just a little, either. After floating on public markets a bit more than a month ago, shares have tumbled below the...
3,001 bones.
That’s the raw number pulled from the dirt near Hanson Ranch Station, Wyoming, over two decades. From 1997 to 2017. They sit there....
New species. That’s the news. Usually it happens via DNA sequencing or someone dragging a microscope lens to its limit. Sometimes you have to...
Losing 80 minutes. Just 80.
It sounds like a rounding error. A blink in a busy day.
Columbia University researchers found it is not. Cut that...
Most weeks nothing happens. Then boom. Everything happens at once.
August 12, 2025—wait, 2026—is shaping up to be the biggest day in the calendar. A...
Earth is buzzing right now. Artemis 2 just proved we can still go back. It feels good. Like maybe the hard part is over....
Shara. Togs. Just two female Przewalski's horses but they carried a lot of weight. 3,000 of it, literally miles. Flown from the UK to...
Biodiversity is losing ground faster than anything else. That is the blunt takeaway from a new study published in Communications Sustainability. While we often...
Five pairs of iron shackles. That is all it took to shift our view of a small settlement in the French Loire Valley. They...
Humble vegetables. Outsize impact. That’s the takeaway from a new look at the Raine Study data from Western Australia. It suggests that legumes and...
Tiny diving suits. That is what engineers just built for cockroaches. Not just any suits, mind you, but functional ones. The insects can now...
It landed on a boat.
Or rather, it was caught by a net.
China’s Long March-10B just proved it can return its booster stage safely. A...
Archaeologists found eighteen tombs.
They sit along the Mediterranean coast near Marina el-Alamein. About sixty miles west of Alexandria. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and...
Galaxies collide. Stars fly. Gas explodes. But the real trouble happens at the center. Supermassive black holes dance together, tighten their grip, and merge....
It wrecked the southern Philippines first. Now the storm is aiming for Taiwan, Japan, and southern China. Bavi is packing heavy rains and a...
The ocean is already crowded. Now the US wants to add rocket pads.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, dropped a Request for...
We thought we knew where Beta Pictoris b came from.
Turns out, the carbon isotopes lied.
Astronomers used the upgraded GRAVITY+ instrument on the ESO Very...
Malaria was nearly gone. For four years, it was practically extinct in this part of the Brazilian Amazon. Then the money ran out. The...
I’m napping. Twelve meters up. A chimp nest in Uganda’s Toro-Semliking Wildlife Reserve holds me like a cradle made of twigs. It feels engineered....
Dust ruins solar efficiency. Simple fact. The bigger problem is the fix. Currently, the industry blasts panels with high-pressure jets. It works. It’s also...
They banned it. Or they are. Under-16s, off the major apps. That is the announcement. The decree. The limit.
But why?
That is the actual question....
It is the U.S.’s 250th.
A big milestone for a nation that started by declaring independence and ended up declaring the universe to be far...
July 4 is your shot. Maybe the best one for a long time.
We’re used to hearing that only five planets are naked-eye targets. But...
Heads up if you’re chasing light. The sun isn’t playing nice.
After an X1.1 flare hit on June 30 things escalated. Fast. Within the next...
ispace is moving more weight to the moon. A lot more.
The Tokyo-based outfit booked 1,100 lbs (500 kg) of payload space on SpaceX’s Starship....
The Launch
It worked. Sort of. After two delays—one for weather, one for software glitches that made everyone groan—the mission finally lifted off. Friday morning,...
Crispr-Cas9 showed up in the early 201Os. Ethical panic followed. Everyone started talking about "designer babies" as if they were just around the corner.
Legally?...
Silence. Just silence.
For decades astronomers listened to the static of deep space expecting hot gas giants to scream radio signals at them. These worlds...
