Inside TSMC's Hsinchu fabs, plasma-driven extreme ultraviolet light at 13.5 nanometres prints circuit features 25,000 times finer than a human hair — using light that doesn't naturally reach Earth's surface.
NASA awarded SpaceX a contract worth up to $843 million in June 2024 to build a single-use vehicle whose only purpose is to deorbit the International Space Station into the Pacific Ocean around 2030, ending more than three decades of continuous human presence aboard the largest object ever assembled in orbit.
LRO images helped APOLLO researchers relocate Lunokhod 1 in 2010, allowing its long-lost lunar laser reflector to return a strong signal.
How a Seychelles shell company, a 143-year-old Swiss private bank, and roughly $700 million in 2009 transfers became the institutional case study that ended BSI — and what the Singapore regulator's 2016 shutdown revealed about the plumbing of global private banking.
ATLAS, a NASA-funded asteroid warning system, first reported 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025, revealing the third known interstellar object.
The Murchison meteorite preserved presolar silicon carbide grains that formed before the Sun, with some dated to roughly 7 billion years old.
Permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole can trap water ice, a resource that could support life support, oxygen production, and future propellant systems.
Curiosity's Mary Anning 3 sample contained the most diverse collection of organic molecules yet found in a Martian rock, including seven first detections on Mars.
Harlow's wire-and-cloth mother experiments challenged the idea that early attachment could be explained by feeding alone, while leaving a difficult ethical legacy.
An ALMA-based analysis reports that water in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is enriched in deuterium by more than 30 times typical Solar System comet values.
In 1909 the German chemist Fritz Haber found a way to pull nitrogen out of thin air. A 2008 Nature Geoscience paper calculates that roughly half the nitrogen atoms in the protein and DNA of every living human now trace back to that single reaction — a fact with a feeding history, a war history, and a chemistry that still runs on natural gas.
The yellow Sun of ordinary Earth life is partly an atmospheric effect: Rayleigh scattering sends blue light into the sky and leaves the direct solar beam warmer.
A new trade association representing non-geostationary satellite operators launched in Washington this week without the participation of the company that dominates the segment it claims to represent.
No human being has ever been as far from Earth as the James Webb Space Telescope is right now.
A 2014 Science paper argued that a substantial fraction of solar-system water was inherited from interstellar ice that predates the Sun.
For a long time, one number did a great deal of work in popular accounts of human biology.
