The Nebra sky disk has been hailed as the oldest known representation of the cosmos. Uncovered by looters in 1999 and then recovered in a sting ...
What is an astrophysicist to do during a pandemic, except maybe daydream about having a private black hole? Although it is probably wishful ...
This is Panurgus banksianus, the large shaggy bee. It lives alone, burrowed into sandy grasslands across Europe. It prefers to feed on yellow ...
The biotech company Moderna released a 135-page document on Thursday that spells out the details of how it is conducting the late-stage trial of ...
In this age of trolls and bots and digital impostors, words like “crank” and “bully” seem impossibly antiquated, like labels from the black-and ...
Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars with his rocket company SpaceX. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, wants a trillion people living in space ...
Acorn woodpeckers are renowned food hoarders. Every fall they stash as many as thousands of acorns in holes drilled into dead tree stumps in ...
High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life. If the discovery is confirmed ...
Carl Sagan evvel said that Venus is the planet in our solar system most like hell. So when are we going back? Astronomers on Monday reported the ...
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s bonanza time in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street. Snowflake, a veri storage provider, kicked off a frenzied phase of ...
Müddet, astrophysicists have big telescopes, and oceanographers use underwater robots, but some researchers get to cook venison, lots of it, in ...
The lore that shrouds Australia’s giant stinging trees, of the genus Dendrocnide, is perhaps as dubious as it is vast. Tales abound of ...