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...
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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...
The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos
To test these new ideas, researchers are exploring the infant universe through simulations. “There’s actually been really remarkable progress since...
The claim that the nicest people end up the loneliest has spread widely this year, and the largest meta-analysis on personality and loneliness, covering 93,668 people across 113 studies, points the other way
The idea that the kindest person in any group is quietly the loneliest has had a good year online. It...
Eating less protein could help you live longer
Some people think that the newest trend of “protein maxxing” will help them live longer and healthier lives, but new...
China’s EV Market Is Booming. There’s Just One Problem
Because retired batteries retain economic value, they seldom go directly to landfills. In principle, batteries that remain in good condition...
In a 2017 study, 307 people rated a fictional Facebook user as wealthier and higher status after reading busy, overworked posts than after reading leisurely ones, but a follow-up found Italian participants judged the exact opposite pattern
For most of the 20th century, the habits that signaled wealth were the ones associated with leisure: long lunches, idle...
AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problem
Last Thursday Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student Seyoon Ragavan sent a new quantum cryptography proof to his friend Yao-Ting...
Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time
To confirm that the observed signal was indeed caused by a moon, the research team also examined other possible factors....
A 2015 study of 953 adults found people who already preferred bitter tastes like black coffee scored higher on psychopathy and sadism traits, but a 2017 replication attempt failed to confirm the link, undercutting the viral personality-change claim
In 2015, the psychologists Christina Sagioglou and Tobias Greitemeyer ran two studies with a combined total of 953 American adults,...
Postpartum psychosis is at the center of the Lindsay Clancy trial. What is it?
Lindsay Clancy, a 35-year-old former nurse, is on trial in Massachusetts for the murder of her three young children in...
The World Is Too Hot. El Niño Is Partly to Blame
Summer heat is about to go from bad to worse, as multiple regions around the world face another round of...
Psychology says people who reread the same novels every few years aren’t stuck in nostalgia, they’re checking who they’ve become against a fixed emotional landmark that doesn’t move when they do
Rereading looks like repetition only if the book is treated as the thing being measured. Look more closely and the...
Spacecraft will swarm asteroid Apophis during fateful 2029 Earth flyby
Discovered in 2004 while traveling on an alarming potential collision course with our planet, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis is now...
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