Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?
We’ve all seen beautiful images of outer space, with vivid swirls and bright stars resting on a black abyss. With...
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Plunge into an immersive IMAX movie featuring the James Webb Space Telescope
In the new IMAX film Deep Sky, a protostar shines from the center of a dark cloud, the phantom galaxy...
EVs have a tire particle problem
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. As gas-guzzling cars are replaced by their electric...
Daddy long-legs-inspired robot could one day squirm through Martian caves
Robotic engineers are no stranger to turning to nature for inspiration. In recent years, birds, dogs, extinct sea creatures, and...
New species of extinct marine reptile found with help from 11-year-old child
Paleontologists already know that the extinct marine reptile ichthyosaurs were enormous. Some newly described jawbone fossils uncovered in England represent...
RIP Atlas, the world’s beefiest humanoid robot
Atlas, the hulking 330-pound acrobatic Boston Dynamics robot (that filled us with equal parts awe and horror) is officially going...
This butterfly hybrid thrived against evolutionary odds
Life may “find a way,” but how living things evolve is not a neat and orderly process. Instead of a...
Grizzlies are getting killed by roads, but the risks are bigger than roadkill
More than 4 million miles of roads crisscross the US. So it’s little surprise that roadkill makes up a big...
Beep beep: Fiat charms city drivers with revived all-electric 500e
In 2013, Italian automaker Fiat launched its first EV, the 500e. The car was sold only in California and Oregon...
The Air Force’s big new electric taxi flies at 200 mph
Today, members of the military and an executive from Joby Aviation used a giant pair of scissors to cut a...
Yes, a chunk of the space station crashed into a house in Florida
The “object from the sky” that pierced through a home in Naples, FL. last month wasn’t a meteorite after all....
Yes, a chunk of the space station crashed into a house in Florida
The “object from the sky” that pierced through a home in Naples, FL. last month wasn’t a meteorite after all....
