A comet visiting our solar system from another star is only the third known interstellar object to pass our way. The approach of 3I/Atlas has sparked interest and curiosity in the astro community, but one prominent Harvard physicist has raised…
Imagine knowing that the stock market will likely crash in three years, that extreme weather will destroy your home in eight or that you will have a debilitating disease in 15—but that you can take steps now to protect yourself from these…
August 11, 2025
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Pessimistic Dogs Are Better at Smelling Cancer—And Other Keys to Disease-Sniffing Success
New research is revealing how disease-smelling dogs can excel
Individual…
NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who helped turn the near-disastrous Apollo 13 moon mission into an inspiring tale of ingenuity and survival, has died at the age of 97.
Jim Lovell passed away on Thursday (Aug. 7) in Lake Forest, Illinois, according to…
Rogue Worlds May Not Be So Lonely After All, Europa Clipper Completes Key Test, and RFK, Jr., Pulls $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Funding
From planets roaming space to major shifts in health funding, catch up with this week’s news roundup.
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Name: Sabu Disk
What it is: A stone vessel
Where it is from: Saqqara necropolis, in Egypt
When it was made: Circa 3100 to 2900 B.C.
This delicate stone vessel was discovered in 1936 in the tomb of Sabu, an ancient Egyptian official buried…
Scientists have created the first artificial tongue that can sense and identify flavors entirely in liquid environments — mimicking how human taste buds work.
The achievement, described July 15 in the journal PNAS, could lead to automated…
Our universe is filled with floating nebulae, spinning planets and black holes. But if we closed our eyes and listened, what would these celestial objects sound like? Would we hear a faint whoosh? Or a low hum?
In actuality, if you went to outer…
A team of Chinese scientists may have cracked the secret behind the strange Canyon Diablo diamonds. Hexagonal in form rather than cubic, the process behind how these diamonds formed has, until now, remained elusive.
Diamonds are usually made of…