Asteroid samples NASA brought to Earth suggest life’s building blocks may be widespread in the universe
The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 deploys 25 Starlink satellites after California launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026.
Why Aristotle would hate Valentine’s Day, and his five steps to love
Valentine’s Day is traditionally a time of heart-shaped balloons, overpriced roses and fully booked restaurants. Couples kiss and hold hands, smiling selfies celebrate a day of public displays of devotion.
Love stories of the Berlin Wall: Couples reunited via tunnels, hot air balloons and zip wires
The people of Berlin woke on August 13, 1961, to discover that their city had been split in two.
Morgan Freeman narrates the glorious rise and meteoric fall of ‘The Dinosaurs’ in new Netflix series (video)
Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment’s 4-part dino-doc arrives March 6
Strike against mask wearing in 1930s echoed COVID-19 protests, study finds
New research from The University of Manchester has shown that debates and resistance about wearing face masks go back a lot further than the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Meng Zhang, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University’s Centre for the…
Not all gigs are equal: Informal self-employment linked to lower pay, poorer health and instability
Not all self-employment guarantees financial security, with informal arrangements posing the greatest risks to well-being for many workers. Using machine learning to classify self-employment, a new University of Michigan study analyzed narrative job descriptions from the 2003–2019 Panel Study of…
I Am Artemis: Jesse Berdis
3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Jesse Berdis Listen to this audio excerpt from Jesse Berdis, Artemis II mobile launcher 1 deputy project manager: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. Jesse Berdis’s dream of becoming…
7,000-year-old deer antler headdress from Eilsleben illustrates contact between hunter–gatherers and early farmers
Central Germany is among the regions where, as early as the mid-6th millennium BC, farmers displaced the Mesolithic hunter–gatherers from the fertile loess soils. Soon after this migration, however, exchange began between the newcomers and the established inhabitants. The State…
Why are the launch windows for NASA’s Artemis 2 moon mission so short?
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, which will send four astronauts on a journey around the moon, can launch on just 11 days in March and April combined. Why are there so few opportunities to fly?