A group of radio antennas silently aimed themselves at a comet traveling through our solar system somewhere in the northern Chilean high desert, at a height…
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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…
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…