Earth’s core is throwing a curveball
The Deep Dive
Down there, nearly three thousand kilometers under your feet. It is a churning ocean of molten iron. Liquid rock swirling around the...
Starship V3: A 400-Foot Giant Gets Cold Feet
Thursday came and went without fire.
SpaceX scrubbed the launch. Not just any launch either, but the debut of Starship V3. This isn’t an incremental...
VR Headsets for 4th Graders: North Dakota’s Career Gamble
A kid peers over a 300-foot wind turbine. His friend stands by surgeons in an ER. Another is fixing a fender in a garage.
They’re...
Cows know your face. And they remember it.
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People underestimate cows. Fair enough, honestly. They are big,...
He Put a Pickup on a Bagpipe. It Works.
Bagpipes polarize.
You either tolerate them or you scream. But this guy didn't just tolerate the concept. He spent thirty years hacking it.
Most pipe fans...
Two Spiders. Same Smile. Zero Connection.
They look identical. That is the trick.
The Theridion grallator, better known as the happy-face spider, has been the star of Hawaiian ecology since 1900....
The race against Bundibugyo
They are running out of time. Scientists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda are scrambling to trial experimental drugs and vaccines....
US bans travel from 3 African nations over Ebola
The ban goes into effect today. It hits Uganda, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Thirty days is the clock. No...
Math’s 30-year mystery, finally cracked
It happened last week. Three mathematicians solved a geometry problem that has baffled the world since 1995. The solution was sensational, a word Michel...
Time Travel through Science History
June 2026 looks back. Fifty years. A hundred. A century and a half. The timeline is jagged, but the discoveries remain sharp.
1976: When Electricity...
Hantavirus: Why your brain wants to believe the worst
May 2nd. That’s when the World Health Organization got word that cases of hantvirus had surfaced on the MV Hondius cruise ship.
Then the internet...
The Blind Spots of the Universe
We think we have the cosmos covered. With thousands of telescopes and a deluge of daily data, it’s easy to assume our eyes are...
Microbial metropolises eating ocean carbon
We need the ocean to trap carbon.
Plankton pull atmospheric CO2, turn it into calcite shells, and eventually die. Their bodies sink. This "marine snow"—a...
Airborne hantavirus? The mystery deepening
The outbreak on the MV Hondius is bad. It’s also confusing. We don’t fully understand how this thing moves through the air.
Eleven people sick....
The “Rogan Effect”: How Celebrity Endorsements Are Driving Unproven Cancer Treatments
A recent study has highlighted a striking correlation between celebrity influence and medical behavior: prescriptions for ivermectin surged significantly in the six months following...
How Weather Radars Track Millions of Migrating Birds
Every year, hundreds of millions of birds embark on a massive journey to reach their northern breeding grounds. While these migrations often go unnoticed...
How One Ohio District Is Closing the Literacy Gap for English Learners
For many children, elementary school is a complex balancing act of mastering multiplication tables, navigating social dynamics, and learning to read. For students who...
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary Resigns Amid Political and Regulatory Turmoil
Martin “Marty” Makary, the surgeon and public health critic who led the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under President Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy...
AI Learns to Do Science Better by Playing Battleship
To revolutionize scientific discovery, artificial intelligence must first master the art of efficient decision-making. A recent study suggests that teaching AI to play Battleship...
NASA’s X-59 Jet Takes Flight: The Quest to Silence Supersonic Travel
NASA is moving closer to a future where supersonic flight is not just fast, but also quiet. The agency has released new footage of...
