The Space Station Crosses a Spotless Sun
Typically, the International Space Station is visible only at night. Slowly drifting across the night sky as it […]
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Helping Alt-Meat Grow Some Muscle by KNVUL SHEIKH
In their quest to make a lab-grown steak, researchers devised a form of scaffolding made with gelatin. Published: […]
Ghost Aurora over Canada
What does this aurora look like to you? While braving the cold to watch the skies above northern […]
How to Get a Whiff of One of Autumn’s Best ...
Foliage is lovely, but so is the odor of the katsura, also known as the “caramel tree.” Published: […]
Gravity s Grin
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, published over 100 years ago, predicted the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. And […]
Some Lab Chimps May Never Retire to a Sanctuary by ...
A panel of veterinarians has determined that 44 chimpanzees at a New Mexico facility are too ill to […]
The Ghosts of Cassiopeia
These bright rims and flowing shapes look ghostly on a cosmic scale. A telescopic view toward the constellation […]
Woodie Flowers, Who Made Science a Competitive Sport, Dies at ...
His hands-on methods of teaching mechanical engineering at M.I.T. made him a star on campus (and on PBS) […]
Colorado Fossils Show How Mammals Raced to Fill Dinosaurs’ Void ...
An unusually rich trove found in Colorado reveals the world in which our mammalian forebears evolved into larger […]
After This Fungus Turns Ants Into Zombies, Their Bodies Explode ...
The life cycle of Ophiocordyceps is like something from a sci-fi movie: “You think, where the hell did […]