Your cart is currently empty!
How NASA Plans to Protect Astronauts During the Artemis II Lunar Mission
Over fifty years after humans last left footprints on the lunar surface, a new generation of explorers is preparing to venture into deep space. The upcoming Artemis II mission is far more than a nostalgic return to the moon; it represents a monumental test of human endurance and modern engineering. Sending a crew on a…
All Five DNA Building Blocks Found on Asteroid Ryugu for the First Time
Something extraordinary arrived on Earth in December 2020, sealed inside a capsule that had traveled millions of kilometers through space. JAXA’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft delivered 5.4 grams of dust collected from the surface of asteroid Ryugu, a carbon-rich body orbiting between Earth and Mars. Scientists had already found organic molecules in earlier analyses of that dust,…
Melania Trump brings ‘first American-made humanoid’ robot into White House and people can’t believe it
A humanoid robot walking through the White House sounds like something out of a futuristic movie, but that is exactly what unfolded as Melania Trump opened the second day of a technology summit in Washington. Guests watched as the human-shaped machine walked beside the first lady through a red-carpeted corridor before entering the East Room,…
How a 27-Year-Old Rewrote the Story of the Universe Section
Adam Riess helped build one of the most important scientific theories of the last century. His measurements changed how physicists understand the cosmos, earned him a Nobel Prize in Physics, and shaped the story humanity tells itself about how everything ends. Now he wants to tear that story apart. At 55, Riess sits in his…
How Viruses Are Teaching Scientists to Kill Drug-Resistant Superbugs
Something is going wrong with one of modern medicine’s greatest achievements. Antibiotics, the drugs that turned once-fatal infections into minor inconveniences, are losing their power. And they’re losing it fast. In the United States alone, antibiotic-resistant bacteria now kill someone every 15 minutes. Across the globe, antimicrobial resistance claims an estimated 700,000 lives each year.…
NASA’s Voyager Spacecraft Discovered a ‘Wall of Fire’ at the Edge of Our Solar System
In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft on a mission that would outlast every prediction. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 left Earth to study the outer planets, but their journey never stopped. Decades later, Voyager 1 had traveled farther than any human-made object in history, drifting through regions of space no instrument had ever sampled. And…
Astronomers Captured a Star’s Final Moment and It Was Not What Anyone Expected
For decades, the death of a star has been imagined as something almost symmetrical, a brilliant, spherical burst radiating outward evenly into the void. It is the kind of image often shown in textbooks and documentaries, balanced, predictable, and strangely orderly for such a violent event. But in April 2024, something quietly extraordinary happened. Astronomers…
Conspiracy Theorists Believe CERN Has Already Moved Us Into Another Reality
For most people, the restart of a massive scientific machine buried beneath the border of France and Switzerland would barely register beyond a passing headline. But for a growing number of internet users, it has become something far more unsettling and strangely personal. When CERN powered up the Large Hadron Collider again after years of…
Experts Say Your Favorite Color Might Reveal Your Emotional Intelligence Level
For years, intelligence has been boxed into numbers, grades, and standardized tests. People have been taught to believe that being smart means being quick with logic, good at memorization, or academically successful. But that definition has slowly been expanding, and experts are now placing increasing importance on something far more human and deeply personal. Emotional…
Sweden Trains Crows to Collect Cigarette Butts and Help Clean City Streets
Cities around the world spend enormous amounts of money trying to keep their streets clean. Among the most stubborn forms of litter is the cigarette butt, a tiny object that millions of smokers casually flick onto sidewalks each day. Individually they seem insignificant, but collectively they form one of the largest sources of urban waste.…