Category: 1. Edi-Choice

The chairs by the pharmacy counter are hard bioplastic and contoured — supposedly — to the human body. They’re not the right shape for Harold or for anyone else who might actually need to sit on them. Too high off the ground, sized for…

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Nature has interviewed a multitude of physicists this year in celebration of the 100th birthday of quantum mechanics. Although many of them disagree wildly about how the century-old theory describes reality, something they seem to agree on is…

SpaceX will launch its record-setting 139th mission of the year today (Oct. 23), and you can watch the action live.

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today, during a four-hour window that…

New guidelines on what to eat and drink if you have chronic (long-term) constipation have been making news in recent days.

Much of the media coverage of the British Dietetic Association’s guidelines has focused on advice to eat kiwifruit every…

Newly released images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS appear to show the alien object spitting out an enormous jet of gas and dust toward the sun — just as comets are expected to do.

Discovered in late June and confirmed by NASA in early…

Rising seas threaten millions of lives and livelihoods in coastal regions, along with untold swaths of vital infrastructure. A new study clarifies, for the first time, the overall danger rising sea levels pose to built environments in the…

When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather satellite GOES-19 turns its gaze toward the sun, scientists don’t expect to see our home planet. But there it was recently — Earth, drifting briefly across the edge…

Physics can get real strange on the microscopic level. For tiny creatures living on this scale, these eccentricities are what allow them to thrive despite their size—including a worm that researchers dub as one of the “smallest, best…