The first commercial meat in the recorded history of human agriculture that had never been part of a slaughtered animal was sold to a group of teenagers at a…
The single most explosive consumer software launch in the recorded history of the commercial internet reached its 100-millionth user in the specific interval…
NASA's Curiosity rover drilled a Martian rock sample in October 2020. The chemistry took years to resolve.
A damaged mitochondrion leaks reactive oxygen species that corrode the cell around it — so a quality-control system built on PINK1, Parkin, and autophagosomes tags and dismantles failing organelles before they poison their neighbours. When that recycling crew fails, Parkinson's, insulin resistance, and accelerated aging follow.
Earth has one Moon, but it does not travel entirely alone. A small asteroid called Kamoʻoalewa loops along beside our planet as a "quasi-moon," and there is real evidence that it may be a fragment of the actual Moon, flung into space by an ancient impact.
In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense.
The idea that we use only a tenth of our brains is appealing. It suggests a huge reserve waiting to be switched on.
The deep ocean is usually treated as the end of the oxygen story. Sunlit organisms near the surface make oxygen through photosynthesis, currents carry some of it downward, and life on the abyssal seafloor slowly consumes it.
On August 19, 2023, Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Moon during a routine maneuver meant to lower its orbit ahead of a landing attempt near the lunar south pole.
Monopoly, as most people play it, rewards the winner who owns everything and drives everyone else off the board.
NASA announced on June 30, 2026, that it is considering sending PROMISE, an engineering test rover built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a stand-in for the Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, to the lunar surface.
At a rocket range 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, where Sweden has fired sounding rockets and floated research balloons since the 1960s, crews are…
The newest estimate for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS changes the scale of the object.
Start with the number that should give anyone pause. The biometric identity firm iProov showed 2,000 people in the UK and US a mix of real and AI-made images and video, and asked them to spot the fakes.
The first hard problem for a Moon base is not building something that works in sunlight.
In July 1377, in a temple on the edge of Cheongju in what is now central South Korea, a group of Buddhist followers finished printing a book using individually cast metal letters.
