All the Fancy Measuring Devices Used in Science Rely on Two Stone-Age Techniques

The multifarious methods we use to gather experimental data ultimately boil down to counting or comparing.

SpaceX Scrubs Starship Launch As $2 Trillion IPO Nears

SpaceX has scrubbed a launch attempt for the latest version of its Starship launch system and will now target Friday evening for a launch from the company’s Starbase.

See A ‘Planet Parade’ As Three Worlds Shine After Sunset This Weekend

North America’s celestial highlights for the weekend ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere.

Webb Telescope Detects Cloudy Mornings And Clear Nights On Alien World

JWST observations reveal dramatic cloud cycles on exoplanet WASP-94A b, offering unprecedented insight into alien weather and atmospheric chemistry.

This mechanical bird drops dead when your home’s air quality worsens
This mechanical bird drops dead when your home’s air quality worsens

The original Birdie debuted in 2022 with a morbid-but-fun design – an air-quality monitor with a literal canary in a coal mine. When the CO2 in your home hit a certain level, a mechanical bird mounted on your wall would appear to drop dead, then prompt you to open a window to air things out. […]

Why the 2026 Hurricane Season Might Not Be That Bad

The impending arrival of El Niño will help keep the number of storms low. But it only takes one landfall to create a catastrophe.

Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers
Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers

Earlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a new compute partnership that provides access to the rocket company’s Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN. Now, with the release of SpaceX’s IPO filing, we have more details about that deal, including how much Anthropic is paying to Elon Musk’s company. In its S-1 filing, SpaceX said […]

2 Tell-Tale Signs Of ‘Fake Love’ In A Relationship, By A Psychologist

Love that feels intense or ‘perfect’ at first isn’t always genuine. A psychologist explains two subtle relationship patterns people often only recognize in hindsight.

Why Do Humans Have Unique Voices? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains The Anatomy That Makes You Unmistakable

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of biology’s better surprises.

In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is the risk factor
In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is the risk factor

The SpaceX IPO is here, and it’s more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk’s companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of. This is evident […]