The thing missing from these conversations is the actual feeling. A friend asks how a hard week has been, and the answer comes out as “a lot,” “complicated,” or “fine, just tired.” The person asking is safe.
Of the hundreds of moons in our solar system, only one has its own magnetic field.
Somewhere between the third rewatch of a familiar film and the fourth visit to the same neighborhood restaurant, a quiet rebellion takes shape against the…
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found a massive galaxy in the early universe that simply refuses to spin — and its existence pokes a serious hole in the standard textbook timeline of how galaxies grow up.
Many of us have a story we tell ourselves about aging well. Stay active. Stay useful.
The man unfolding his boarding pass for the fourth time at gate B12, three hours before departure, is not afraid of flying, not afraid of crowds, not even…
A clinical trial that just began dosing patients at Johns Hopkins is testing something the diabetes world has suspected for years: that the same class of drugs millions of people take to manage blood sugar may be quietly protecting the brain from shrinking.
A claim circulating in marine biology circles deserves careful handling: that the ocean's dominant carbon-fixing organisms were either undescribed or misclassified for decades, and that the carbon budgets attributed to them are still being rewritten.
If you grew up in the 1960s and 70s, there is a good chance nobody sat you down and promised the world would treat you kindly.
The James Webb Space Telescope cost roughly $10 billion, launched on Christmas Day 2021, and has produced science that, according to Space Telescope Science…
The most powerful gridded ion engine NASA has ever flown produces thrust measured in millinewtons at kilowatt-scale power.
The asteroid that carved the Moon's largest scar may have arrived from the north, struck at a shallow angle, and flung pieces of deep lunar material across hundreds of kilometers of the far side.
The skill we call intuition is often something else wearing a softer name. The adult who finishes a friend's sentence before she gets to the end of it, who…
A team at Stanford and the Arc Institute studying why some people stay mentally sharp into their 90s while others lose their edge in their 50s has traced age-related memory loss to a specific gut bacterium and the inflammatory signal it sends to the brain.
There is a particular kind of person every family seems to produce, and by the time they reach their late fifties, something in them has gone quiet.
When NASA's Psyche spacecraft skims past Mars on May 15, 2026, the gravity assist will do more than bend its path toward the asteroid belt.
