Terraforming Mars would make the planet more like Earth and better able to sustain life as we know itDETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Releasing glitter-sized iron rods into Mars’s atmosphere could warm the planet enough to melt water and support...
Blackworms are ultra-fast swimmers, and they tangle up into worm balls to protect themselves from predators – but leeches have an ingenious method of catching them called “spiral entombment” Source link...
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams on the International Space StationNASA NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams may be stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) until February 2025 after issues cropped up with the spacecraft they rode to...
Former Hurricane Debby Stalls, Causing Heavy Rains and Flooding along East CoastSome parts of the southeastern U.S. have seen more than a foot of rain from Tropical Storm Debby, and rain will keep moving up the coast in the coming...
Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our three-dimensional understanding. This breakthrough solves a decades-old geometry problem by...
COVID-Positive Olympic Athletes Are Still CompetingSeveral athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have come down with COVID, but they are still allowed to competeBy Saima S. IqbalAdam Peaty of Team Great Britain competes in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke Final...
What Does the 'Hobbit' Fossil Discovery Teach Us about Our Tiny Human Relatives?A tiny human relative called the Hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, may have evolved from a larger ancestor that shrunk upon arriving on the Indonesian island of Flores, a...
I am an only child. Saying this sometimes feels like a confession – not least when people respond with a well-meaning “oh, you don’t seem like it!”. Now, as the mother of a preschooler, I see my daughter navigating the...
An anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square, London, in August 2020Richard Baker/Getty Images Many people who respond to surveys saying that they believe in conspiracy theories probably don’t think they are actually true. This means that attempts to assess the prevalence...
Moon ‘Spiders’ Suggest Extensive Underground Lunar CavesNewfound spiderlike features suggest lunar explorers should watch their stepBy Theo NicitopoulosMoon “spiders” (outlined) seen with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Lava plains and volcanic residue on the moon’s surface point to the orb’s...
