Europe’s wildfires are igniting forgotten WWII and Cold War bombs
When a wildfire broke out in the Müritz National Park of north-eastern Germany in July, it was no routine firefighting...
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Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket
The first images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage impact on the moon’s surface have emerged.The Korea Aerospace Research...
Earth has five named oceans, but they form one connected system covering 71 percent of the planet, moving heat, carbon, and nutrients between basins on currents that can take a millennium to circle the globe
We learn the planet as a row of labels: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern. The names are useful, but...
How spaceflight changes astronauts’ ability to eat and drink
Imagine trying to swallow a sip of water while your face feels stuffed with congestion, your sense of taste is...
The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon
For decades, scientists had theorized that the sun’s surface must be crisscrossed by tiny plasma vortices, generated by the interaction...
A dinosaur skull dug up with a Tyrannosaurus tooth still embedded in its face has given scientists something almost impossibly rare — direct fossil evidence of the final moments of a T. rex attack, frozen mid-bite for 66 million years and now readable like a crime scene
The tooth is broken. It sits, sharp and unmistakable, lodged in the nasal bone of a duck-billed dinosaur that died...
Psilocybin could kick-start anorexia recovery, early results suggest
It was 2022, and Christina was running out of options. The Londoner, then age 34, was desperate to fix her...
The SpaceX Falcon Lunar Crash Is a Warning for Moon Bases
A SpaceX rocket that has been drifting in space for a year and a half is set to crash into...
A 2008 trial randomly assigned sedentary young adults reporting persistent fatigue to six weeks of exercise, and found the low-intensity version reduced tiredness more than the moderate-intensity version did
Persistent tiredness usually gets the same prescription: rest more, sleep more, do less. A body of exercise research aimed at...
A SpaceX rocket is about to hit the moon—these videos show what could happen
An errant piece of a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon, and astronomers are eagerly awaiting...
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
Two days after I drop Allen off at the airport, I drive out to Troup County, about an hour and...
Research suggests people who handwrite lists and people who use phone apps process their entire day differently — paper list writers tend to plan from internal cues while app users increasingly rely on external prompts, and over decades that difference quietly reshapes how autonomous a person feels inside their own life
Two neighbors run the same Saturday. Bank, hardware store, pharmacy, call about the insurance thing. One sits at the kitchen...
The U.S. military needs tungsten, but pristine NASA site may stand in the way
The U.S. military is hungry for a domestic supply of tungsten, a critical mineral used to make weapons—but a NASA...
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth
If you own a strong enough telescope, you might be able to witness history on Wednesday: A dead rocket is...
“Lightning never strikes the same place twice” is a comforting saying and a completely false one — tall structures get hit again and again, and the Empire State Building alone is struck around twenty-five times a year
The lightning rod on top of the Empire State Building has a routine. A couple of dozen times a year,...
How to surf on Saturn’s moon Titan
It’s summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere, when beachgoers beat the heat by splashing around the cooling waters of Earth’s...
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