Four experimental nuclear reactors have started self-sustaining chain reactions on U.S. soil in a single month, clearing a symbolic July 4 deadline set by the Trump administration and, backers say, ...
One of the quietest Apollo experiments is still doing science without a battery, a radio, or a moving part. It is not a telescope on the Moon. It is not a buried instrument or a forgotten antenna. It ...
The International Space Station is falling. Right now, as you read this, the massive laboratory is losing altitude every day, sinking through the thin residual atmosphere at the top of Earth’s sky ...
A Pennsylvania farm landscape near Hughesville. This representative photograph does not show Mervin Raudabaugh's two Cumberland County properties. Photo by Phil Evenden via Pexels. An 86-year-old ...
Namibia is one of the driest countries in Africa, and its capital sits far from any river that runs all year. According to Veolia, one of the companies that helps run the plant, the region gets around ...
The natural gas flame behind Eternal Flame Falls in Chestnut Ridge Park, New York. Photo: Ram samudrala/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Behind a thin curtain of water in western New York, a flame ...
Space does not begin at a clean edge where Earth’s air abruptly stops. The atmosphere thins continuously, molecule by molecule, until its outermost hydrogen becomes almost indistinguishable from the ...
Lake Vostok is one of the strangest lakes on Earth because, for most purposes, Earth has hidden it from itself. It lies under the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, near Russia’s Vostok Station, ...
Sharks were already ancient by the time the first tree worked out how to stand up. The evidence for their head start is spectacularly unglamorous. A scattering of tiny scales, pulled from Late ...
On September 3, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to his laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London, and began sorting through plates of Staphylococcus. On one dish, a mold ...
Almost all the electricity a data center pulls off the grid comes back out as heat. One overview of the field puts the figure at roughly 90%. A data center is, in effect, a very expensive radiator.
For most of the 20th century, one of the most reliable trends in psychology was that intelligence test scores kept rising. The New Zealand researcher James Flynn documented it across dozens of ...
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