November 4, 20242 min readEpic Gravity Lens Lines Up Seven-Galaxy ViewA galaxy cluster bends light from seven background galaxies around it, letting astronomers peer into space and timeBy Tom MetcalfeThe Carousel Lens (center) bends the light of seven background galaxies....
James Fitzjames (Tobias Menzies, left) and John Franklin (Ciarán Hinds)James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust The TerrorAMCShowrunners: David Kajganich, Soo Hugh In September, an awful truth was brought to light. Ever since contact was lost with the Franklin expedition, an 1845...
James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust When I first started my fitness journey, I wanted to maximise my workout. If I was going to be sore and sweaty, I figured I might as well make the most of it. Building fitness...
A skeleton from a Gallo-Roman grave in Belgium is made up of bones from at least seven individualsPhotograph courtesy of Paumen, Wargnies, and Demory; Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles A complete skeleton found in a Gallo-Roman grave in western Belgium is not a...
COP29 will begin on 11 November in Baku, AzerbaijanAziz Karimov/Getty Images In just a few days’ time, thousands of delegates from almost every country on Earth will arrive in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. The...
November 1, 20245 min readThe Virus That Causes Mpox Keeps Getting Better at Spreading in PeopleAnalysis of a strain of the virus circulating in Central Africa shows genetic mutations indicative of sustained human-to-human spreadBy Max Kozlov & Nature magazineColorized transmission...
Now is the best time in the history of the U.S. to cast a vote. Yes, American elections have flaws. They’re marred by voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, the inherent weirdness of the electoral college and recent cases of ballot box arson....
A bacteriophage virus can kill microbes, influencing what happens to the carbon their bodies containnobeastsofierce Science/Alamy Viruses that infect other microbes may influence the movement of more than a billion tonnes of carbon in soil, according to the first attempt...
Mass-shifting particles have finally been spottedLAGUNA DESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Strange particles that have mass when moving one direction but no mass when moving in another were first theorised more than a decade ago. Now, these mass-shifting particles have been glimpsed...
Every time H5N1 infects a mammal, it has a chance to develop mutations that make it more transmissibleAlamy Stock Photo It’s been detected in birds on every continent except Australia, seals in South America, foxes in Canada, as well as...
