El Administrador de la NASA, Jared Isaacman, ha nombrado a Stephen Cash director del Centro de Vuelo Espacial Marshall de la agencia en Huntsville, Alabama, a p…
Escuche la sesión o vea abajo: ¿Puede la IA diseñar nuevas formas de vida? En 2025, el estudiante de doctorado de la Universidad de Stanford, Samuel King, propu…
Los arqueólogos han descubierto un antiguo campamento en Alaska que tiene evidencia de la vivienda más antigua y posiblemente de los perros más antiguos domesti…
El Henry Ford, referente de la innovación estadounidense en Dearborn, Michigan, es ahora la tercera parada (segunda en EE. UU.) de la exposición itinerante "Art…
Una búsqueda a nivel nacional de cangrejos gigantes reveló un ejemplar récord de Tennessee y un sorprendente misterio sobre cómo pueden crecer estos animales ac…
Los astronautas de la misión Crew-12 de SpaceX desean que todos pudiéramos ver la Tierra como lo han hecho ellos: un hermoso pero frágil puesto de vida en un va…
Pocos días después del alunizaje de la misión Artemis II de la NASA el 10 de abril de 2026, los buzos de la Marina de los EE. UU. capturaron imágenes submarinas…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting s…
Atoms confined to a single line can bind into clusters called Bethe strings. A new experiment points to a mix of many such clusters, though the evidence is stil…
Scientists investigating Nazi Germany's secret nuclear program have uncovered evidence that its final experimental reactor was nowhere near as close to working …
As the supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage, and NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket roared to life, Allison Mjoen and her family watched with …
More than 5 million people around the world with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) experience atrophy in their retinas. And until now, no treatment could r…
The newly identified Invictibellatrix amberina lived about 120 million years ago and represents the first megaraptoran dinosaur found in Europe, according to a …
If you love watching meteors, 2026 has given you plenty to enjoy. This summer, the annual Perseid meteor shower peaked on the day of a new moon — and a solar ec…
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellati…
I. Meet cute Barnabas and Mainspring grew up near at hand, about an hour apart with good traffic, but for a long time they weren’t close. They traded glimpses a…
Stellar cores called white dwarfs come in an astonishing array of colors, including what scientists say is the first known green star and the reddest star ever …
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have unravelled some of the secrets of a bizarre, blisteringly hot exoplanet that has the consistenc…
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I don’t remember much about Peppy, my first and only pet cat. I can conjure the sensation of stroking her while she purred, recall how she used to get stuck in …