
Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy
Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it
Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it
Speaking to people’s priorities can build the will needed to implement climate solutions
Enacted dreams could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease
Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings
An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us
Scientists have new evidence about how cosmic cataclysms forge gold, platinum and other heavy members of the periodic table
A mourning ritual of dialogues with the dead speaks to the fragility of theological diversity
Clinics and the most effective types of therapy are harder to find in communities where people of color live
These new views of familiar space sights reveal details never before seen
Metabolism studies reveal surprising insights into how we burn calories—and how cooperative food production helped Homo sapiens flourish
In 2022 the world’s population hit the eight-billion mark. But such milestones could top out by the end of the century
How the JWST’s cosmic images are made
A specific kind of trauma results when a person’s core principles are violated during wartime or a pandemic
Advanced materials can modify waves, creating optical illusions and useful technologies
The James Webb Space Telescope has sparked a new era in astronomy
Several physics measurements suggest that novel particles and forces exist in the universe
For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted
Math helps to randomly select the fairest citizens’ assemblies since antiquity
Brain scans reveal that some people who can’t speak or move are aware of the world around them
Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide
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