Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a fully formed stellar bar inside a massive galaxy that existed when the universe was barely a tenth of its current age, a structure that current models say should not be possible.
There is something quietly striking in the image. An older adult — perhaps 86, perhaps older — sits before a digitizing tablet and draws horizontal lines.
"The Great Wall of China is not visible from orbit with the naked eye. It's too narrow, and it follows the natural contours and colours of the landscape.
Three seconds. That is roughly how long a cheetah needs to go from a dead stop to about 60 miles an hour. The Cheetah Conservation Fund goes a little further, citing acceleration to a top speed past 110 km/h in just over three seconds.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral on the evening of May 28, destroying the vehicle and inflicting heavy damage on Launch Complex 36 during what was meant to be a routine static-fire test.
The X-59 is expected to cross Mach 1 for the first time in early June 2026 at about 43,000 feet, not as a speed stunt but as the opening move in a regulatory…
The figure for a single email comes from a 2025 peer-reviewed paper in Communications of the ACM by Pengfei Li, Shaolei Ren, and colleagues at the University of California, Riverside.
Cymothoa exigua, a small marine crustacean, enters fish through the gills, eats the tongue from the inside out, and then takes its place. Biologists call it the only known parasite that functionally replaces an organ of its host.
A leaf goes into a sloth and, in the worst case, takes a full month to come out the other end.
Somewhere on the ventral surface of the temporal lobe, in a region called the fusiform gyrus, there is a small area of cortex that responds far more strongly to faces than to almost anything else.
SpaceX's Raptor 3 engine — the powerplant the company has spent the better part of two years marketing as a simpler, more reliable replacement for the troubled…
On 18 February 1930, a young man named Clyde Tombaugh sat at a blink comparator in Flagstaff, Arizona, and noticed a faint point of light that had shifted position between two photographic plates.
Around 2.4 billion years ago, the air over Earth began to change. Microbes in the oceans, the cyanobacteria, had been running a chemical reaction that split water and released oxygen as waste.
Lay every continent and island on the planet side by side, and the total land area comes to roughly 149 million square kilometres.
On 27 May 1843, the Scottish clockmaker Alexander Bain was granted British Patent No.
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