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A five-inch-tall red chalk drawing of a foot, said to be by Michelangelo (1475–1564), will be offered for sale at Christie’s auction house in New York in February. Christie’s estimates the work to sell between $1.5 million and $2 million. The piece came to light when Giada Damen, a specialist in Old...
Europe is investing in a coordinated effort to develop high-power optical vortex technologies and train new specialists in the field. The HiPOVor network unites academia and industry to advance applications ranging from material processing to environmentally friendly photonic systems....
Voyager 1 is one of humanity’s most poignant and remarkable technological achievements. Over the course of its nearly half century odyssey, the probe has glimpsed the gas giant Saturn, passed the threshold for interstellar space, and continually sets the bar for our furthest traveling human-made obj...
To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our home planet from above, countless NASA astronauts have described feeling awed by the astonishing sight and a profound shift in perspective that followed. NASA astronaut Matth...
About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across space rocks. By examining subtle isotopic fingerprints in Earth and Moon samples, scientists have reco...
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AutoFlight’s new system combines a “zero-carbon water vertiport” with eVTOL aircraft to expand air mobility across large water areas. By tackling challenges like limited site options, slow infrastructure deployment, and complex take-off and landing processes, the solution makes low-altitude transpor...
Supernovas are the largest explosions humans have ever observed. They can occur when massive stars run out of fuel and die, shining extremely bright and sometimes leaving behind a mysterious black hole. Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated telescopes witness many supernovas every year, but ...
MIT has discovered a new way to penetrate the layers of time using CT scans to uncover how the earliest civilizations of the past worked with metals. Metallurgy, or the use of metals, revolutionized the world as a practice when human beings began extracting and processing metals. Gaining deeper insi...
A time traveler visiting from an earlier era might reasonably conclude that humanity has entered the age of cyborgs and cybernetics. Pedestrians regularly walk down city streets with tiny computers in their hands and even smaller digital devices shoved in their ear canals. Virtual reality headsets, ...
UK-based Tokamak Energy has recorded a significant breakthrough in the development of clean energy by successfully replicating fusion power plant fields within its Demo4 magnet system. This is the first time in the world that such fields have been created in a full High Temperature Superconducting (...
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy, NGC 2775, that’s hard to categorize.ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that’s hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 m...
Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t know why we do it...
Explore This Section Science Science Activation 10 Years of Students Helping… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science 3 min read 10 Years of Students Helping NASA Grow Space Food with Growing Beyond Earth Students fro...
Researchers have discovered how a protein called SCEP3 ensures successful chromosome segregation during sexual reproduction in plants, which could provide insights into human fertility. The discovery could benefit both plant breeding and understanding of human fertility.
llustration of BioSentinel’s spacecraft flying past the Moon.NASA/Daniel Rutter Editor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel s mission marked three years of operation in deep space. Astronauts live in a pretty extreme environment aboard the International Space Stat...
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Blistering suns, endless dunes and almost no water. This is the imagined world on the planet Tatooine in Star Wars. Here, survival depends upon towering vaporators that loom over the sand, drawing in air and condensing its moisture into life-giving water. But this technology isn’t just limited to th...
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9 hours agoVictoria GillScience correspondentThe "swarm" of tens of thousands of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini earlier this year was triggered by molten rock pumping through an underground channel over three months, scientists have discovered.They used physics and artificial......
This is a transcript of an episode of Untold Earth, a series from Atlas Obscura in partnership with Nature and PBS Digital Studios, which explores the seeming impossibilities behind our planet’s strangest, most unique natural wonders. From fragile, untouched ecosystems to familiar but unexplained oc...
Sodium may be the underdog of battery chemistry, but new research shows it could soon punch far above its weight. As global demand for energy storage from EVs to resilient power grids explodes, scientists are pushing hard to develop alternatives to lithium-ion. Sodium-ion batteries have emerged as o...
