When Isabel Hyman heads out in coming weeks to the wilds of northern New South Wales, she’s worried about what she won’t find. Fifteen years…
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As the pace of coronavirus vaccinations picks up, normal life is looking tantalizingly in reach. Nearly a year after the World Health Organization declared the…
Losing your body from the neck down can be just another one of life’s annoying, but temporary, setbacks — at least for two kinds of…
Beloved BeastsMichelle NijhuisW.W. Norton & Co., $27.95 On October 29, 1929, a date best remembered for the infamous Black Tuesday stock market crash, socialite and…
In terms of difficulty, trapping a plasma is right up there with catching a cloud and pinning it down, or holding a moonbeam in your…
A smash hit In “A complete collection of cosmic smashups” (SN: 1/30/21, p. 30), Emily Conover and Nadieh Bremer visualized every gravitational wave event spotted…
Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project unveiled the first map of humankind’s genetic instructions, an astonishing feat of technology that promised a future of…
NASA’s Super Soaker mission was basically an extreme DIY project: To better understand how noctilucent, or night-shining clouds form, researchers made one from scratch. One…
The supermassive black holes at the centers of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are doomed to engulf each other in an ill-fated cosmological dance.…
There is no good time for a pandemic, but COVID-19 hit the United States as a public health crisis was well under way. The novel…