Adrian Villellas
He thought he had struck gold in Australia, but for years he had held something far more improbable in his hands: a fragment of the solar system that predates our planet
No drills, no lasers, no giant robots: the latest outlandish idea in space mining involves a box the size of a Tupperware container and microbes capable of extracting metals from a meteorite in orbit
NASA is testing an idea in orbit that once seemed like science fiction and has discovered that a fungus can extract valuable metals from space rocks 400 kilometers above Earth
Scientists have discovered that a “young” region of Mars did not cool as quickly as previously thought, and that its magmatic system continued to evolve quietly for millions of years
Psychology suggests that the loneliest people in life are not usually the outcasts, but rather those kind, competent, and always-available individuals whom everyone values, but whom almost no one calls to ask how they are doing because they seem too strong to need care
A 183-million-year-old black rock is broken open in Germany, and the golden sheen of this Jurassic fossil turns out to be something other than what everyone had believed for decades
Engineers have developed a material capable of self-repairing more than 1,000 times, which promises to extend the service life of key components in airplanes, cars, and wind turbines for centuries
A real interstellar comet entered the Solar System, and the buzz on social media was so intense that even artificial intelligence began generating data about aliens and impossible trajectories
NASA has finally solved the mystery of the giant spiderwebs observed on Mars since 2006, and Curiosity’s findings have reignited the big question of how long water remained underground
Goodbye to traditional cement: seaweed could forever change the most widely used material on the planet
Goodbye to the bear as a hunter: a new study reveals that more and more populations are shifting toward a plant-based diet
Africa is surprising the whole world with a phenomenon no one expected: trees are reappearing without anyone having planted them
Scientists agree on this and are issuing a serious warning: these bats could be behind a future epidemic in the most affected areas of the planet
What seemed like the most innocent routine of the day—boiling water and letting a tea bag steep for a few minutes—has become a major cause for concern, as some studies now estimate that a single cup of tea contains up to 14.7 billion microplastics and nanoplastics
Ukraine activates a filter that blocks unauthorized Starlink signals, and the war sparks an even bigger battle over the more than 10,000 satellites already orbiting Earth











