The bone was taller than the man standing beside it. That was the first real clue that the weathered shapes at the edge of a communal pond in Chaiyaphum province, in northeastern Thailand, were not stones.
Show a mother a photograph of her own dog, then a photograph of her own child, slide her into an MRI scanner, and a good deal of what lights up looks the same.
In March 2017, a river in New Zealand stopped being property and became a person.
A person born in China in 1980 is not yet old. They are in their mid-forties, younger than a good number of the people who will read this.
Early Friday, over the South China Sea, the first stage of a Long March 10B rocket fell back through the sky, deployed four hooks, and let itself be caught by a net strung across the deck of a waiting ship.
What follows is a piece of reading and reflection, not guidance. We are writers, not psychologists or clinicians, and the studies mentioned here describe patterns across groups of people, not rules for any one reader's own mind or decisions.
Each of your kidneys holds roughly one million nephrons, together filtering about 180 litres of blood plasma every day. Sustained high-protein intake measurably raises the pressure inside every one of them — and unlike almost every other tissue in the body, nephrons do not grow back.
A coronal mass ejection carries roughly a billion tons of magnetised plasma from the Sun to Earth in as little as 14 to 18 hours — and the same physics that lights the aurora can collapse a continental power grid in under two minutes.
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In July 2026, Isar Aerospace signed an agreement for a launch complex in Nova Scotia whose disclosed fixed-payment schedule totals US$112.5 million over 10…
The familiar T. rex is an ending, not a life story. The animal most people picture is enormous: deep skull, heavy jaws, thick legs, a body built around the power to bite through bone.
Europe's Euclid telescope has found 31 of the oldest known quasars in one go, and the haul roughly doubles the number known from that early stretch of the universe.
The summit of Everest is usually imagined as the opposite of an ocean floor. It is the highest point on Earth above sea level, a wind-scoured place where the air is thin, the temperature is brutal and the nearest sea lies hundreds of kilometres away.
Let's start with the number that frames everything else. Earlier in 2026, Waymo was giving about 500,000 paid rides a week across its US markets.
The Scott Kelly telomere result is one of those spaceflight findings that sounds almost too neat at first.
The Federal Communications Commission has authorized radio operations for Eärendil-1, a demonstration satellite built around a reflector measuring roughly 18 metres by 18 metres.
