2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.
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The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study many dangerous cosmic phenomena, knowledge of which may help save humanity.
We’re still using 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid a year, but burials are becoming far less common.
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.
We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.
A “bio-battery” made from genetically engineered bacteria could store excess renewable energy and release it as needed.
We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.
If Rome was not built in a day, why do you think you can be?
A dispute marked by flags and booze has been replaced with an official land border.
Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
Researchers hypothesize that these exoplanets could support the development of alien life.
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
Due to a crust of carbon, the absence of oxygen, and constant bombardment from meteorites, the planet Mercury may be littered with diamonds.
All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?
Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.
The plant-like sea creatures contain a molecule that improves memory, learning, and even hair quality, according to a new study in mice.
Who doesn’t love a little existential fear every once in a while?
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
Mars and Earth were sister planets in many ways, with early similar conditions. Why did Mars die? The leading explanation isn’t universal.
The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia’s Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?