Kevin Montien
The 5,200 holes dug into a mountain in Peru are no longer a mystery, and the explanation changes what we knew about their ancient economy
Birdwatching for years not only changes what you see, but it could also be reshaping your brain in ways that surprise neuroscientists
The Arctic mystery that had puzzled oceanographers for 40 years now has an explanation, and it is not wind force
Lightning has been detected on Mars for the first time, and the Perseverance rover has captured something that seemed impossible
What appeared to be an old, forgotten file from the Magellan probe, launched in 1990, has turned out to reveal one of the strangest discoveries about Venus: an empty underground tunnel approximately 1 kilometer wide
A NASA astronaut points his camera from the Space Station and turns in-orbit experiments into images so strange they look like art from another world
Astronomers are holding their breath: one of the most massive stars in the universe has entered a strange and unstable phase, and no one knows what might happen next
Perhaps the biggest problem with electric cars isn’t the battery, but a magnet that fails in the heat
A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after George H. W. Bush returns from the Atlantic after completing key maneuvers, and the maneuver once again puts the spotlight on a decisive phase before deployment
Goodbye to pollution in Beijing: The city breaks its record for clean air and reaches a historic milestone that has surprised the whole world
A study published on February 23, 2026, uncovers a silent leak in two dark lakes in the Congo and reveals that up to 39% and 40% of the carbon they release comes from peat that accumulated thousands of years ago, offering a troubling clue to the great climate puzzle
The James Webb Space Telescope detected strange red spots in the early universe, and now a study suggests that they were not galaxies, but young black holes growing at a breakneck pace
A “mini-brain” created in the lab faces the challenge of solving one of engineering’s most complex problems, and what happens in just 45 minutes raises a profound question about artificial intelligence
Archaeologists are turning to artificial intelligence to decipher a 2,000-year-old Roman inscription, and what’s written on the stone could change everything we thought we knew about an ancient lost game
Richard Feynman, physicist and visionary, in 1959: “There is enough space on the head of a pin to fit the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica”
An artificial intelligence application identifies dinosaur footprints with 90% accuracy… and may have found the footprints of the planet’s first birds, dating back 200 million years
Up to 50% of your lifespan is “determined” by genetics before you are born, according to the Weizmann Institute









