On 30 July 2025, a team from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper in Nature reporting…
Tetris began as a way to test a computer that could barely draw. In June 1984, Alexey Pajitnov, a researcher at the Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, was writing small programs to see what a new machine could do.
The claim arrives fully formed and easy to repeat. A person who loses their sight before about the age of five, it says, dreams without pictures at all.
King Mswati III of Eswatini spent three days in late April 2026 marking 40 years on the throne.
Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly somewhere beyond the planets.
The CMS experiment at CERN has reported the first direct observation of a diffusion wake in quark-gluon plasma using dijet events, the short-lived fluid created when lead nuclei collide inside the Large Hadron Collider.
The old image of a reusable rocket is still a test article: stainless steel, scorch marks, crowds watching for the landing, engineers waiting to see whether the thing survives.
A planet can orbit two stars without being strange in fiction. The strange part is finding one in a real telescope image, tucked far closer to its twin suns than astronomers thought such a directly photographed world ought to be.
In 1984, Soviet cardiologist Oleg Atkov spent 237 days aboard Salyut 7 with a portable echocardiography unit, producing what appear to be the first real-time ultrasound images of a human heart remodeling in microgravity — and founding a tradition of orbital imaging that still guides ISS medicine today.
The blast threw a thirteen-pound tamping iron through his cheek and out the top of his head. Within an hour he walked up a flight of stairs. What the famous part of the story gets wrong is what happened next.
Marcus Raichle noticed the same brain regions lighting up whenever his subjects were supposedly at rest. That accidental observation in the 1990s became the discovery of the default mode network — the system that runs your inner life and burns nearly as much fuel as focused thought.
The Apollo 13 distance record was never meant to be a monument. It was a byproduct of a rescue.
The strangest thing about our solar system may be what it is missing. Line up the planets by size and there is a clean jump.
NASA has reduced one of the strangest milestones in human engineering to a timestamp.
Most comets are treated as leftovers from a local story. They formed with the planets, spent billions of years in the cold outskirts of the Solar System, and occasionally fall inward, warming just enough for sunlight to pull gas and dust from their surfaces.
China has planted an estimated 66 billion trees since 1978 as part of the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, the afforestation effort more commonly known as the…
