The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...
In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...
Concept illustration of a laser-driven lightsail. This is an artist's concept, not a spacecraft that has reached relativistic speed. Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives. Source and project information. A ...
Somewhere on the planet right now, somebody is the last living person who can tell a particular joke and have it land. The punchline runs on a word that exists in exactly one language, and that ...
Every animal that can hear does it more or less the same way. Something inside the body, an eardrum, a stretched membrane, a cluster of tiny hair cells, catches a shift in air pressure and turns it ...
A hurricane gives you warning. A cold front gives you warning. What NASA described for the middle of the next decade gives you almost none of that, and that absence of warning is the detail that ...
A living root bridge starts out looking like something somebody forgot to pull up. A single pale root, no thicker than a shoelace, gets threaded by hand through a hollowed-out betel nut trunk laid ...
Finland’s cabinet used to finish the working week by taking its clothes off. A reporter for The Christian Science Monitor who went hunting for the country’s diplomatic secret weapon in 1987 found ...
The suits switched to battery power at 8:29 a.m. EDT on 18 August 2026, and the clock that governs every spacewalk began to run. Six hours and twenty-three minutes later, when the airlock was ...
The question came from a woman I’d never spoken to before, both of us standing on our pedals mid-class in a dark spin studio that smelled like clove deodorant and someone else’s protein shake. I was ...
Hold two numbers side by side. One is the small pour of dark liquid in front of you, a few gulps, gone in minutes. The other is a figure more than a thousand times larger, hidden entirely from view, ...
For months, the data looked like an ordinary shark. A pop-up satellite archival tag attached to a pregnant porbeagle shark off Cape Cod tracked the animal through its usual pattern: diving deep during ...
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