How to See Comet Lemmon This October
It was early January 2025 when a faint light spot was observed at the Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona. Follow-up observations revealed that the object...
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SpaceX’s Second-Gen Starship Signs Off With a Near-Perfect Test Flight
In the closing moments of Monday’s flight, Starship flexed its flaps to perform a “dynamic banking maneuver” over the Indian Ocean, then flipped upright and...
A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone
After the latest round of mass firings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the weekend, the union that represents agency employees estimates...
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Spewing Water Like a Cosmic Fire Hydrant
Comet 3I/Atlas continues to be full of surprises. As well as being only the third interstellar object ever detected, new analysis shows it is producing...
How to Make STEM Funny—and Go Viral Doing It
Wait, I saw this. You posted a video of someone in the crowd telling you they were a veterinarian and then you said “OK, some...
More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life
A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never been recorded there before. The findings, published this...
A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You...
Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy
“[The clutch] is like 1950s technology—it’s really boring,” Westerman said (“boring,” for grid operators, is the highest form of praise). “The marginal cost of putting...
Europe Pledges $600 Billion for Clean Energy Projects in Africa
“From the outset, the Global Gateway has been described as the European Union’s attempt to rival the Belt and Road Initiative’s overseas infrastructure investment funds....
Covid Shots Are About to Be Widely Available Again
Covid-19 vaccines are about to become widely available again across the United States, following several weeks of confusion around who would be able to get...