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Isaac Schultz
isaacschultz
Science writer at Gizmodo, previously of Atlas Obscura. A native New Yorker. Mostly covering ancient things (on Earth and beyond) and masses extremely big or incredibly small.
The carbon appears to have spilled out of the moon's subsurface oceans, rather than arriving via a meteorite or…
The NASA spacecraft will return a sample from the distant asteroid to Earth on September 24.
Unearthed in Zambia, the 476,000-year-old timber construction redefines our sense of early hominin ingenuity and…
A team of researchers managed to isolate and sequence century-old RNA from the thylacine, also known as the…
The intrepid little spacecraft flew through a coronal mass ejection, helping scientists understand space weather.
Explore the beauty of space with over 30 mesmerizing images, all handpicked from this year's Astronomy Photographer…
LCLS-II will produce up to one million X-ray pulses per second and will be 10,000 times brighter than its…
Ig Nobel Prizes for Unusual Science Feature Fossil Lickers, ‘Stanford Toilet’, and Corpse Nose Hairs
The annual awards for quirky scientific research were given out this week, and as usual, they blended the bizarre,…
The newer space observatory found that the rate of the universe’s expansion is still not adding up.
The space observatory’s latest target is one of the youngest known protostellar outflows.
The galaxy appears to be surrounded by a halo of gas, dust, and stars.
Dimethyl sulfide is only known to be produced by living things on Earth, but the signature requires further…
NASA’s Division of Biological and Physical Sciences needs more investment, according to top U.S. scientists.
The comet won’t return for over 400 years, and tomorrow morning is your best chance to witness this celestial…
The project was designed to showcase on-site resource use on the Red Planet—and it did just that.
The black hole devoured an equivalent of three Earth masses during its nine observed bites of the star over several…
If you have any ideas, I’m sure NOAA would be eager to hear them.
Levitating conveyor belts, asteroid spaceships, and crater telescopes, oh my!