The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama...
A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe
Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of...
Analysts Say Trump Trade Wars Would Harm the Entire US Energy Sector, From Oil to Solar
Why is this conflict happening? The short version is that Trump and his advisers...
Hummingbirds Are Evolving to Adapt to Life With Humans
Some species of hummingbird are adapting to urban life by undergoing evolutionary changes in...
The Plan to Send Plant-Filled ‘Gardens’ Into Orbit
She imagines industrial activity in space, freeing up land on Earth. Hollywood directors shooting...
The Milky Way Has a Mysterious ‘Broken Bone’
If you look at the Milky Way through a powerful telescope, you’ll notice that...
This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane
“Demonstrating the reuse of fully recoverable hypersonic test vehicles is an important milestone for...
Scientists Have Just Discovered a New Type of Electricity-Conducting Bacteria
A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical wiring has recently been discovered...
How Mexico’s Fishing Refuges Are Fighting Back Against Poaching
It has been two hours since the divers left the coast behind. As they...
A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving...
