In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 6-78 mission launches from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Nov. 20, 2025. Credit: U.S. Space Force photo by Gwendolyn Kurzen, public ...
JWST imaging and spectroscopy of MoM-BH*-1. The source is point-like in NIRCam observations, while NIRSpec reveals its extreme Balmer break and hydrogen features. Credit: Naidu et al. (2025), CC BY ...
For months, the data looked like an ordinary shark. A pop-up satellite archival tag attached to a pregnant porbeagle shark off Cape Cod tracked the animal through its usual pattern: diving deep during ...
Bentley, a bottlenose dolphin calf, raises a baler shell in Hervey Bay. In the closer view, a suspected lizardfish protrudes from the aperture. Image: Levengood et al. (2026), Marine Mammal Science, ...
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” That is James Legge’s translation of a line attributed to Confucius in the Analects. At first it sounds like a simple ...
Here’s a number that surprised me more than it probably should have. Among single Americans age 40 and older, 71 percent of women say they aren’t looking to date right now, compared with 42 percent of ...
A year 70 million years ago held more days than a year does now, yet it lasted essentially as long. That sounds like a contradiction until you separate the two things we lump together as time. The ...
South Korea leads the developed world on one measure of education and lags on another, and both facts describe the same country at the same moment. Its young adults are the best-schooled in the OECD ...
Photo by Ray Strassburger via Pexels. NASA has quietly accumulated more than 150 petabytes of data across decades of missions, and under a new White House initiative launched in November 2025, it’s ...
Representative image of stars visible in a dark night sky. Photo by ning wong on Pexels. A child who can count 250 stars from home tonight may be able to see fewer than 100 from the same place at age ...
The Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus, grows at roughly one centimetre a year and does not reach sexual maturity until it is about 150 years old. That figure comes from a 2016 study in Science ...