Recently, a cheerful 100-year-old message in a bottle was found on the south-west coast of Australia. In it, a world…
Month: April 2026
Astronomers have finally mapped out a mysterious galactic “supercluster” that has been almost completely hidden from Earth since it was…
Hubble revisited the aquatic-looking Trifid Nebula 30 years after its original observations. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. Image processing: J.…
Although May hasn’t quite got as much going on as the excitement of April, there’s still a lot to look…
Humans migrated to South America in three distinct waves over the course of thousands of years, a new large-scale analysis…
Imagine getting a knee replacement made of living materials rather than metal and plastic.Researchers at Columbia University and the University…
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist, WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station; and WBEZ, a public radio station…
It’s now clear. Scientists predict that humanity will miss its target of keeping atmospheric warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above…
We celebrated Earth Day this week, and the science news was filled with troubling implications for the pale blue dot…
Some stars and constellations are ever-present in the night sky; Polaris, for example, has served as a steady guiding light…