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How to Reconnect with Old Friends Who Have Become Stran...

People are reluctant to reach out to contacts with whom they have lost touch—but...

How Did Jupiter Get Its Great Red Spot?

New research suggests the Great Red Spot we see on Jupiter today is an entirely ...

Denisovan DNA may help modern humans adapt to different...

Highland and lowland populations in Papua New Guinea have different gene variant...

The First Ever Fossilized Chromosomes Came from a Freez...

For the first time, researchers have reconstructed the 3D structure of ancient g...

How Antarctic Scientists Think about the Future of Our ...

Researchers on a multimonth Antarctic expedition describe how the climate crisis...

Molecular Biologist Nancy Hopkins Took on M.I.T. for Di...

Nancy Hopkins used a commitment to justice and a tape measure to take M.I.T. to ...

Heat Wave Hits Texas amid Power Outages from Beryl

Days after Hurricane Beryl hit Houston and left millions without power, the city...

Russia is building ground-based kamikaze robots out of ...

Hoverboards, or self-balancing scooters, are already used by hobbyists as a basi...

Hubble Measures the Distance to a Supernova

Measuring the distance to truly remote objects like galaxies, quasars, and galax...

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier th...

All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancest...

Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-recyc...

When astronauts go on a spacewalk, their urine is collected by what is essential...

You can turn any random sequence of events into a clock

A set of mathematical equations can help turn apparently random observations int...

NASA Remembers Retired Astronaut, US Air Force Pilot Jo...

Retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Joe Engle died July 10, surr...

Laser helps turn an electron into a coil of mass and ch...

Researchers have reshaped single electrons into spiralling matter waves with dis...

45 Years Ago: Skylab Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere

A few days before they left Skylab on Feb. 8, 1974, the final crew to occupy the...

Electrical and Mechanical Technician Clifton Brown

“We have a group photo of my first project here, ASTRO-H, and that one means a l...

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