Earth & Life
May 2026
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Science & Engineering
In 1964, a quiet British physicist named Peter Higgs proposed the existence of an…
Science & Engineering
The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003
Deep Space
In 1992, the number of confirmed planets outside our solar system was zero
Science & Engineering
There is a spot in the South Pacific so far from any coastline that when the…
Science & Engineering
China has just sent stem-cell-grown structures resembling early human embryos to…
Science & Engineering
A new meta-analysis of 27 studies just changed what I'm most afraid of about sugar
Science & Engineering
Paleontologists in New Mexico have just dug up a two-legged, beak-mouthed reptile…
Science & Engineering
The Bronze Age civilization that built the city of Akrotiri on Santorini around…
Science & Engineering
In 1816, a French physician named René Laennec, embarrassed to press his ear…
Universe
Scientists tracked 8,000 supermassive black holes across the universe and found…
Science & Engineering
The largest known organism on Earth isn't a whale or a tree
Science & Engineering
For more than thirty years after his death in 1955, Albert Einstein's brain was…
Space & Missions
When Soviet engineers landed Venera 13 on the surface of Venus in 1982, they…
Science & Engineering
The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 with a mirror so precisely ground that…
Deep Impact