The California Science Center will show Endeavour in launch position for the first time on Nov. 13, and the effort behind it says a lot about the Shuttle’s legacy.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch provided a show for people in the eastern U.S. this morning. Basic physics explains the glowing jellyfish-like contrail cloud.
How do four species of sharks share a rock barely 100 metres long in the middle of the Pacific? New research at Mexico’s Roca Partida suggests the answer may be partly about where sharks swim and when they show up.
Around the 15th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death, Apple fans spotted a strikingly familiar image on the product page for the New Balance 992, which Jobs wore often.
What sets highly successful people apart isn’t fearlessness. Psychology shows why well-timed, well-chosen risks matter more, and how to take them well.
The threat of quantum computers to government systems, how AI is upending math and the ongoing Pentagon-Anthropic saga. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.
After four weeks of using the cream, participants lowered the biological age of their skin by about two years on average.
Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wheel.
Each Monday, I pick North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere).
If you thought you’d seen all there is to see from the Artemis II mission, you’re wrong. This week NASA posted over 800GB worth of science data, images, and videos on the Artemis II: Sights & Sounds of Science site. The archive includes over 11,000 photos and videos, over 8.5 hours of audio, and crew-annotated […]