The year’s brightest comet will make its closest approach with Earth over the weekend—and, if you’re in the right spot,…
An explosive new report by Reuters released Friday may upturn the narrative surrounding the potential cancer risks of…
To tackle widespread scientific misconduct, the Chinese government has expanded its controversial social credit system…
This holiday season, the Food and Drug Administration has issued an important, somehow not obvious piece of advice to…
A startup based in Maryland has released and tested an impressive new quantum computer that demonstrates the power of…
The precise location of NASA’s InSight lander within Elysium Planitia is now known, thanks to images captured by the…
Quantum computers that can crack our strongest encryption methods might be decades away—but a group of entrepreneurs…
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A disease-carrying, newly invasive tick to the United States, the Asian longhorned tick, is poised to spread across…
Since its inception in the 1950s, radiocarbon dating has proven indispensable to archaeologists and climate scientists,…
The 1,500-year-old Pumapunku temple in western Bolivia is considered a crowning achievement of Andean architecture, yet…
It may seem fantastical, but there is a living world deep, deep beneath our feet. Go below the soil, beyond the…
Buried beneath 4,000 feet of Antarctic ice lies Lake Mercer, a subglacial body of water that formed thousands of years…
Truly, 2018 has been a year filled with news that made us look blankly ahead and utter ‘wat’ into the void, frozen in…
In the very first selfie taken by InSight, the NASA probe looks ready and rarin’ to go.
He was somewhere between the age of 17 and 25 when he died, apparently of natural causes. But for reasons that are…
The universe began with a bang—and things immediately got weird.
Russian cosmonauts are preparing to inspect a mysterious hole on the exterior of a damaged Soyuz capsule, a complex…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has already detected evidence of water on its target, the asteroid Bennu, just a week…
A human-made object has entered the space between the stars for the second time in history, scientists report.
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