SCIENCE

Astronomers catch dwarf stars gobbling up their orbiting companions

As far as fairytales go, dwarfs can be Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy or Dopey. But in space, dwarfs might be better…

19 hours ago

Can bioengineered bacteria help terraform Mars?

Last month Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of the nonprofit start-up Pioneer Labs, delighted or shocked many space nerds with some big…

4 days ago

See the cool photos this Jupiter-bound spacecraft took while swinging by Earth

Early Monday morning, the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) zoomed by Earth as it prepared to slingshot…

7 days ago

How a horse flu crisis fueled animals rights advocacy in the U.S.

On Wednesday, October 23, 1872, a slew of articles appeared in The New York Times, The New York Herald, and…

1 week ago

Watch a robot dog run a marathon faster than the average human

Hot on the heels of humanoid robots besting Usain Bolt’s record in the 100-meter sprint is a marathon-running dog bot.The…

2 weeks ago

Why human language may be intertwined with fire

When asked about the greatest innovation of humans, people will often say language or fire. A new paper suggests that…

2 weeks ago

Missing pages of priceless Henry VIII–era manuscript finally found

A 600-year-old book that once belonged to a personal attendant of King Henry VIII is helping to reveal the shifting…

3 weeks ago

25 winners of math’s ‘Nobel Prize’ decry the AI invasion of their discipline

Top mathematicians are increasingly pushing back against the tech industry’s artificial-intelligence-powered incursion into their field.A statement released last Friday and…

3 weeks ago

How the Math That Powers Google Foresaw the New Pope

October 11, 20255 min readThe Math That Predicted the New PopeA decades-old technique from network science saw something in the…

12 months ago

Birds Went Silent during the Great North American Eclipse—Here’s What Researchers Discovered

When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April 8, 2024, the songbirds in…

12 months ago