May 14
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In 1949, a 70-year-old Albert Einstein shot off a message to England-based radar researcher Glyn Davys. The topic…
May 14
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When pressed for oxygen, some fish and sea cucumbers will use their lower intestines to get a little extra out of…
May 13
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Despite the vast and expensive effort to figure out the identity of the invisible stuff that seems to make up much…
May 13
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For years, paleontologists and paleobotanists have spent time on Wyoming’s Hanna Formation, a 58-million-year-old…
May 12
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Though named for the Roman riff on Zeus, the planet Jupiter looks every bit a happy home for Hades in an infrared…
May 12
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As NASA’s little helicopter whirred off to its new airfield on Mars, one could practically hear the sigh of relief…
May 11
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Off the southwest coast of Japan, a group of animals has been coexisting in a close relationship that researchers…
May 7
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Mammals have a pretty basic blueprint. Among other things, we give birth to live young, we’re warm-blooded, and,…
May 6
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Off the coast of Florida lie marigold meadows floating in the ocean; they’re trails of sargassum, a seaweed that…
May 5
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Pasta boxes are bound by the constraints of their contents; the rigid stalks of spaghetti require different…
May 4
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In the early 1990s, a British anthropologist named Robin Dunbar argued that humans can’t handle more than 150 stable…
May 3
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It’s not wrong to want Ingenuity to crash. The Mars helicopter getting into a dramatic accident would mean that the…
Apr 30
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Hoping to find a local dolphin named Kevin, a citizen archaeologist ended up finding a medieval logboat sunk in the…
Apr 30
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Off-world helicopter flights are almost starting to seem mundane, as Ingenuity has now flown for the fourth time on…
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China today launched the main module of its new space station into low Earth orbit. The ambitious project is set to…
Apr 28
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Crackling away on a cosmic scale, small flares in the solar corona have been a matter of intrigue for researchers,…
Apr 28
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Moonwalking on Mauna Loa. That’s been the name of the game for the astronaut candidates of the HI-SEAS habitat atop…
Apr 27
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For three months in 2019, physicists blasted a beam of electrons at lead atoms that were held in place by foil made…
Apr 26
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Four years in the making, a pragmatic mission concept for an interstellar probe would go beyond the Voyager…