In 2023, data from the James Webb Space Telescope soured hopes that TRAPPIST-1 c had an atmosphere. That disappointment might have been premature.
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The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.
Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth’s last wild continent.
The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.
These nematodes complicate how we understand evolutionary lineages.
In “Dear Oliver,” neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
“Amid the chaos, he remembered his life being eerily calm as he knew it wasn’t if, but when they would be hacked to pieces. He just kept kicking.”
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.
The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all uni-plate planets, and may always have been. Here’s what’s known about why Earth, uniquely, has plate tectonics.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.
For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.
Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
The outer planets’ clouds hide the weirdness within.
Scientists may have detected the somewhat smelly chemical dimethyl sulfide on a planet 120 light-years from Earth.
Mars and Earth were sister planets in many ways, with early similar conditions. Why did Mars die? The leading explanation isn’t universal.
It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly’s discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
On Earth, microbial growth is common in lava tubes no matter the location and climate, whether it’s ice-volcano interactions in Iceland or hot, sand-floored lava tubes in Saudi Arabia.