Well, they've done it. After seven years and 6.21 billion-kilometers, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has officially delivered a capsule of precious Asteroid Bennu dust to Earth.It's a major, incredible achievement, a feat of space...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume...
In 1687, Isaac Newton formulated his laws of motion and universal gravity, bringing the movement of distant stars, moons, and planets into focus.With the stroke of his quill, Newton's pioneering work also...
On the morning of September 11, critical care specialist Anoop Kumar was presented with an unusual situation. Four members of the same family had been admitted to his hospital—Aster MIMS in Kozhikode,...
If you saw grains of sand rolling uphill you might be forgiven for thinking you were watching a Christopher Nolan movie. But scientists have recently figured out how a sand-like material can...
On September 12, ufologist and journalist Jaime Maussan presented what he claimed to be evidence of alien life to the Congress of Mexico. On September 19, Mexico’s scientific community gathered for a...
Neolithic humans were apparently big on reuse.According to an analysis of bones from Cueva de los Marmoles, or Marmoles Cave in Southern Spain, it wasn't necessarily uncommon for living humans to repurpose...
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has announced it is one step closer to putting brain implants in people.Today, the company stated that it will begin recruiting patients with paralysis to test...
