Science & Engineering
May 2026
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Human Behaviour
Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins called early hunter-gatherer societies "the…
Earth & Life
Sam Altman asked what problem people most hope AI will solve
Space & Missions
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice less than a minute after launch, and the…
Space & Missions
JPL's management contract is suddenly up for grabs for the first time since the…
Constellations
Australia keeps being described as a junior AUKUS partner
Science & Engineering
A fossil site in North Dakota appears to have captured the day the dinosaur-killing…
Science & Engineering
A slice of the static on an old untuned television was the afterglow of the Big…
Space & Missions
Researchers simulated 30 million routes to the Moon and found a hidden detour…
Constellations
The fuel-saving lunar trajectory that looks like the long way round could solve one…
Space & Missions
The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers…
Space & Missions
NASA deliberately crashed Galileo into Jupiter in 2003 to protect Europa, after the…
Space & Missions
The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because NASA…
Constellations
A Colorado startup just raised $30 million on a quiet bet that astronauts won't…
Space & Missions
The war in Ukraine has become the world's largest live test of autonomous drone…
Space & Missions