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Think about your breakfast this morning. Can you imagine the pattern on your coffee mug? The sheen of the jam on your half-eaten toast?

Most of us can call up such pictures in our minds. We can visualize the past and summon images of the future….

For the first time, scientists have directly observed metal pollutants leaching from a piece of orbital junk: a SpaceX rocket as it burned in the atmosphere. Such pollutants can damage the ozone layer, meaning the findings will help…

Fincke, Cardman, Yui and Platonov had been living and working aboard the International Space Station since early August and were originally expected to stay at the orbiting outpost until late February.

Instead, top NASA officials and the…

Economist Larry Summers resigns from posts at Harvard after ties to Epstein spark scrutiny

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, the commander of the International Space Station, revealed that he was the crew member whose medical issue required a group of space station fliers to cut short their mission and return early to Earth in…

In the summer of 2024, a team of researchers went storm-chasing in a Toyota Sienna minivan in search of tiny, faint sparks lighting up the tips of leaves. As a thunderstorm raged overhead, the researchers pointed their camera at…

Heart disease in young women projected to rise sharply by 2050

For millions of years, Earth’s history has been shaped by cosmic impacts, yet one ancient collision in Brazil remained hidden, until now. A recent study published in Geology has uncovered evidence of a meteorite strike that occurred 6.3…

Squeak! The surprising new physics of why basketball games are so noisy