Cosmic crash The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will merge in about 10 billion years, and the supermassive black holes at their centers will collide…
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We’re living through an extraordinary triumph of science — the deployment of new vaccines that promise to stop a pandemic that just a year ago…
The Ingenuity helicopter proved it could fly on Mars. Now it has loftier goals. Having passed all its original engineering tests, the tiny spacecraft will…
Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered a powerful evolutionary load. This 3.67-million-year-old adult female…
Water drives the rhythms of desert life, but animals aren’t always helpless against the whims of weather. In the American southwest, wild donkeys and horses…
Lightning could play an important role in flushing pollutants out of the atmosphere. Observations from a storm-chasing airplane reveal that lightning can forge lots of…
The fastest punches in the animal kingdom probably belong to mantis shrimp — and they may begin unleashing these attacks a little more than a…
Today’s most advanced clocks keep time with an incredibly precise rhythm. But a new experiment suggests that clocks’ precision comes at a price: entropy. Entropy,…
A sudden zag in which way the North Pole was drifting in the 1990s probably stemmed in large part from glacial melt caused by climate…
Some atomic nuclei are thin-skinned — they’re surrounded by a slim shell of neutrons. Physicists now know how thick that neutron skin is for one…