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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe and our place in it.
When a seven-year-old reaches for red paint to show anger, the color wheel is not proving a hidden neural pathway, but turning the expanding language of emotion into something the child can see
SpaceX Dragon set to depart the space station with bioprinted tissue and cancer-treatment samples, bound for a California splashdown
On WASP-121 b, the evening sky runs hot enough to tear water apart, hotter than the morning sky — and James Webb caught the difference by watching the planet turn during a single transit
One electric eel delivered an 860-volt shock, the highest ever measured from a living animal — and a 2019 study revealed it belongs to one of three separate species
Beneath the Antarctic ice, a lake the size of Lake Ontario has been sealed off from sunlight for roughly 15 million years, and when Russian drillers finally reached Lake Vostok in 2012 they recovered water teeming with traces of life that had evolved in total darkness.
A mirror does not actually reverse left and right, even though your brain insists it does — it reverses front and back, creating a world where depth is flipped and the familiar face looking back is stranger than it feels
In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the known elements into a table and left gaps for what had not yet been discovered, but the detail that makes the periodic table remarkable is that chemistry became organized enough to predict missing pieces of reality
The hundreds of skeletons in a frozen Himalayan lake were blamed on one ancient disaster, until DNA showed some of the dead came from the eastern Mediterranean and died about a thousand years apart
An asteroid long thought to be a chunk of the Moon may be ordinary space rock instead, a new study finds, as China's Tianwen-2 circles it to grab a sample
The first human trial of a therapy designed to partially reset the biological age of human cells was approved in January 2026 — using molecular switches that scientists have already shown can reverse the aging of cells in the laboratory — meaning humanity has, for the first time, formally entered the era of testing whether cellular aging can be reversed in living people.
