Category: 7. Science

Earth feels like a local story. It sits close to the Sun, surrounded by rocky neighbors, and is built from dust and debris that once swirled in this tight inner region.

For years, scientists believed that story was incomplete. They suspected that…

Last summer, a wedding photographer walked begrudgingly into a physics laboratory outside Rome. Feeling uninspired by the intricate machinery around him, he decided to turn off the lights. “I wanted to create a world that was a bit more…

The history of iron metallurgy in sub-Saharan Africa has long puzzled scientists. Now, a newly studied site in eastern Senegal offers one of the clearest windows to date into this ancient technological change.

In Senegal, archaeologists have…

Later today, NASA will launch its Artemis II mission, sending astronauts back to the moon (albeit on a flyby mission, no landing) for the first time in decades.

It’s the sort of news story that has media outlets giddy with excitement….

Newswise — New research has discovered that the molecular machines responsible for copying our DNA have a surprising hidden talent – an ability to create entirely new and highly sophisticated DNA sequences from scratch.

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Researchers at the University of Osaka have hit a vital milestone toward creating tabletop X-ray lasers, with the goal of building ultracompact high-energy electron accelerators.

Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important…

While the notion that we might be approaching Earth’s maximum, or its breaking point, has previously been associated with environmentalism, there is now a growing amount of scientific research to support this notion. With our population…