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The seafloor beneath Antarctica’s ice has long existed in climate models as a blank space, a featureless plane where deep ocean simply stops at the continental margin. That cartographic convenience has now collapsed. A systematic mapping…

Standing under a starry sky, gazing up at the wonder of the cosmos, is a foundational human experience and one that has shaped our storytelling and cultures for millennia. Looking at the night sky is a mindful…

Scientists have long suspected that active supermassive black holes can kill their own host galaxies, but new research suggests these cosmic titans are more like serial killers that can extend their murderous rampage across many light-years and…

[CLIP: Skates cut across the ice at an ice rink, and music plays in the background.]

Kendra Pierre-Louis: So we’re out here today in lower Manhattan ice-skating. There are lots of kids skating around, dudes in hockey skates, and I’m here…

“If I give you a diagnostic tool that lets you end up with a kid that has a three times higher chance of getting admitted to MIT, I think people are going to be interested.”

Although it sounds like a line from a sci-fi movie, this is actually a…

Researchers in China have found a potential new biomarker of Parkinson’s disease hiding in human hair.

When the team analyzed the hair of 60 patients with Parkinson’s and compared the results with those of healthy, age-matched controls, they…

If we’re willing to think about the future, the farther ahead we extrapolate, the farther along the inevitable path toward our thermodynamic end state: the heat death of the Universe. Star-formation will eventually end, and then…

SpaceX landed a rocket in The Bahamas for the second time ever on Thursday (Feb. 19).

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 8:41 p.m. EST (0141…