Three astronomers had just two days of feasible conditions at Kitt Peak National Observatory, which is located in the mountains southwest of Tucson, Arizona, on the…
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Being extremely publicly correct about something and then abruptly and blatantly wrong about it can cause a certain type of intellectual humiliation. Modern Monetary Theory held…
A young undergraduate student is seen holding a cat above a thick, soft cushion in the Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry at Yamaguchi University in…
A signal that no one could explain was hidden somewhere in a NASA data archive among gamma-ray measurements taken in December 2004. It was easily missed,…
A paper that was published in Nature Neuroscience in March 2026 has an accompanying image that is worth pondering. Three panels, one for a mouse, one…
Crawford Lake is a small lake in Ontario, Canada, where the water hardly moves at all. It remains motionless enough for its sediment layers to accumulate…
The sky appears surprisingly straightforward on a chilly night away from city lights. A faint Milky Way band, a scattering of stars, or perhaps a satellite…
Relief is frequently the first topic of discussion when discussing student debt forgiveness. The prospect of erased loans is viewed as a game-changer by graduates, some…
Usually, a quiet moment is when the idea first begins to feel real. Perhaps midway through a meal, sitting at a table, you notice that odd…
The air starts to move in ways that aren’t immediately apparent at dusk, close to the edge of a peaceful pond. Insects hover just above the…