You just inhaled around 25 sextillion molecules of air. That's 25 followed by 21 zeroes.
In the eight years since, the world has done something genuinely strange. It has confirmed, item by item, almost every warning he spent his final decade trying to make people listen to.
What if the gold band on your finger predates not just your marriage, not just your country, not just human civilization, but the planet you are standing on —…
The most successful packaging material in modern commerce was a failed home furnishing product before it was a failed agricultural product before it was…
The James Webb Space Telescope operates from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point, roughly 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, and runs on about one kilowatt of power.
The booster landing itself on a barge. The Starship test flight. The Elon Musk press conference about Mars.
NASA has released hours of audio purporting to be the "sounds" of planets, and the Saturn recordings in particular have circulated widely enough that most…
A friend put her cup down at lunch a few months ago and said, I can't actually remember the last time I felt happy.
You probably know someone like this. Often a woman, though not always. The woman who holds everyone else together.
The claim is arithmetically correct, and that is the least interesting thing about it.
Masakazu Kongō, the fortieth-generation head of Kongō Gumi, used to keep a hand-copied scroll listing every leader of the family business going back to a…
The brain is supposed to go quiet when it dies. That is the assumption baked into a century of clinical practice, the framework that lets hospitals declare neurological death, and the intuition that makes flatline the universal cinematic shorthand for the end.
Scott Kelly came home from 340 days on the International Space Station in March 2016 fractionally younger than the brother he had left behind.
Estimates suggest the human body replaces around 330 billion cells every day out of a total body population of about 37 trillion.
On a clear night at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, a 3.5-meter telescope fires a pulse of green laser light at the Moon.
A neutron star compresses something like 1.4 solar masses — roughly 2.8 × 10^30 kilograms — into a sphere about 20 to 24 kilometers across.
