In 2024, NASA awarded Rocket Lab another contract to study alternative concepts for the Mars Sample Return, which aimed to ...

With an estimated 6 sextillion kilograms of the stuff—that’s 21 zeroes by the way—the Earth’s core is another example of why hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

Thanks to high-concept stories with significant production costs and complex logistics, sci-fi shows are often on the ...

A new books tells the stories of scientists ‘ridiculed, exiled, and Imprisoned for being right.’ Nuno Castel-Branco is a historian of science at the University of Oxford and writes the Stories of ...

A team of researchers has found a way to steer the output of large language models by manipulating specific concepts inside these models. The new method could lead to more reliable, more efficient, ...

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

Today, we know a lot about distance work and how to make it work. Thirty years of federally funded research brought ...

In physics, to qualify as another reality means it must lie beyond the four known space-time dimensions. Such a realm must also be inaccessible, like public restrooms in the Big Apple. Good examples, ...

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

When success reshapes the self, is it character or a temporary flare? The line between acquired narcissism and stable traits, with self-checks and repair steps.