Science
Switzerland just scanned what’s under everyone’s feet, turning secret geology into a national GPS for planners
It all started with a simple bowl of oatmeal and an apple; now scientists believe that these foods contain more than 139,000 compounds that could change the way we understand nutrition
It all began with a material thousands of times thinner than a human hair; now scientists believe they have found an unexpected way to manufacture much more efficient superconductors
Neutron stars may double as dark-matter detectors — because who wouldn’t use cosmic wrecking balls for science?
The Space Station’s quantum lab just went colder, edging scientists closer to physics so weird it makes gravity blush
Forget about epic explosions: just 300 years ago, a swarm of hyper-powerful stars would have left a perfect crater next to the central black hole… and today, astronomers see it as a kind of space graffiti that’s still smoldering
NASA is launching its wildest plan since “Apollo 13”: launching a Pegasus rocket from the air, releasing the LINK spacecraft into the middle of the Pacific, and catching the veteran Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it crashes like a burning hunk of scrap metal onto your roof
The microwave-sized mini-refrigerator floating 400 km above Earth has just put atoms into “ghost mode” at –273 °C, and NASA scientists believe this experiment could equip future rockets with a “galactic GPS” that not even errors in solar signals could throw off course
The Webb telescope captures a “roasting” exoplanet: 4,900°F, clouds of glass, and an atmosphere of vaporized metal on a world that is boiling just a hair’s breadth from its star
NASA’s X-ray eye caught a jet shooting from the first black hole we ever photographed—apparently fame hasn’t tamed the beast
NASA’s Webb and Hubble teamed up on Terzan 5, and the detail that matters is that they proved it isn’t a globular star cluster at all but a surviving relic from the Milky Way’s earliest formation
The fastest subatomic messenger in the universe lands on the ice of Antarctica and points toward an “invisible” galaxy 11,000 million light-years away
The candy that was said to predict success is losing its power: a study of 918 children shows that, after taking into account environmental factors and early skills, patience at age 4 has barely any effect on grades—just one-tenth of a point—by age 15
A cub named Sparta, which remained frozen in the permafrost for 32,000 years, provides virtually intact DNA and confirms that cave lions constituted a distinct lineage, with brain, visual, and circulatory traits, that never set foot on the African savanna
Romania opens 31,000-year-old cave art to tourists, moving ancient bison doodles from torchlight to selfie sticks
A cave sealed in Gibraltar for 40,000 years is home to what could be the last place of residence of the Neanderthals








