NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now listed by NASA for launch on August 30, 2026, a little earlier than the September 2026 timing that has appeared in some recent coverage.
Fermented cabbage and a bottle of olive oil do not obviously share a shelf. In 2006, the American magazine Health put them on one anyway, naming five foods it called among the world's five healthiest: olive oil, soy, lentils, yogurt, and Korean kimchi.
In the late 1950s, when the American oil reporter Wanda Jablonski travelled to Abu Dhabi, the town had no hotel, no paved roads and no electricity, and dinner at the one expatriate household was tinned meat or, as a treat, dugong stew.
A country of 5.5 million people owns, through a single state fund, close to one and a half per cent of every listed company on the planet.
In February 2021, the Japanese government decided that loneliness was a matter of state.
A group of researchers at the Università della Svizzera italiana gave mice small foot tattoos in black, red or green, then watched under the microscope where the ink went.
A hot spring at the foot of the Akaishi Mountains in Yamanashi Prefecture has been feeding the same bathhouse since the year 705. Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, the…
Geochemists at the University of Göttingen have found chemical evidence that material from Earth's core is mixing into the mantle plume that feeds Hawaii's volcanoes, a boundary long assumed to be effectively sealed.
Jupiter was roughly twice its current size, and by some estimates as much as two and a half times, around 3.8 million years after the solar system's first solid material formed.
When an expert birdwatcher encounters a species they have never identified before, what they are doing with their brain is not simply trying harder than a beginner would.
On the scale of the whole observable universe, matter is assumed to be spread out fairly evenly: enough galaxies in enough directions that no single patch of sky should look dramatically emptier than any other.
For most spacecraft, a failed thruster is an engineering problem. For Voyager 1, it is a problem stretched across interstellar space, handled by commands that take more than 23 hours to arrive and another 23 hours to report back.
The Sturtian glaciation is difficult to hold in the mind because its scale is so out of proportion to human history.
A planet nearly 700 light-years from Earth now has one of the strangest weather forecasts in astronomy: cloudy mornings, clear evenings, and clouds made not of…
When astronomers first weighed the planet GJ 3378 b, they got a figure of about 5.3 times the mass of Earth.
Ask most adults over forty to list the memories that come back to them unprompted, and a strange pattern shows up.
