Category: 1. Edi-Choice

Earthquakes are violent events that alter the face of the planet. In many cases, those changes occur beneath the surface and only gradually become visible over thousands of years. Occasionally, however, an earthquake’s effects aren’t just…

A giant parachute built for Europe’s beleaguered ExoMars mission has aced a drop test with a mock lander during a test campaign in the Arctic.

The double parachute system consists of a 50-foot-wide (15-meter) first-stage chute and a secondary…

Some people along the northern part of the United States could get a light show in the sky Tuesday night, when the view line for the northern lights dips all the way to the Oregon-Washington border.

Tuesday night, the auroras could be visible…

A couple of months ago, PetaPixel reported on a remarkable security camera video that recorded the first-ever view of the Earth’s surface shifting along a major fault line during…

Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to…

Tiny organisms live in a world where the usual rules of motion feel upside-down. Water that slips through our fingers turns syrupy at their scale, dragging against every twitch. Yet a sperm cell or a green alga skims along as if the goo were…

A small fragment of rock found at Stonehenge in 1924 may provide the key that unlocks the mystery of how the prehistoric monument was constructed. Known as the Newall Boulder, the bullet-shaped lithic lump sits at the heart of a heated…