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For most of the space age, our presence in Earth orbit has been relatively modest. Until the beginning of the 21st century, only a few hundred satellites operated around Earth at any one time, and the number grew to a few thousand by the 2010s….

The real reason there are no snakes in Ireland

By K. R. Callaway edited…

This article is part of “Innovations In: Kidney Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex.

Alex Berrios arrives at the dialysis clinic when the world is still dark, shortly after…

The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling the decaying finger of a buried giant pushes up from the earth until it towers 10 feet above the ground. A massive…

Blue Origin is teaming up with NASA to thwart asteroids that may be on collision courses with Earth.

Jeff Bezos’ company has partnered with researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology to study how…

MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH

In “The Mother of Depressions,” Marla Broadfoot reports on a new type of drug that offers better and faster treatment for postpartum depression. I am a postpartum depression and anxiety crisis survivor, and the article…

This article is part of “Innovations In: Kidney Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex.

The global burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is high and getting higher. In 2023 it…

This video is part of “Innovations In: Kidney Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex.

Imagine it’s the first day of summer, and you have a pool full of water that’s so clear…

Infinity

I searched for the end of infinity
An activity of great affinity
I took a dry run
And kept adding one
But never quite reached the vicinity

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It was December 2025, and Katie Tobin’s kids were fighting again. This time it was because her six-year-old, Tori, wasn’t sharing toys with her little sister, Sunny. Sunny retaliated as three-year-olds often do; she hit Tori in a fit of…