It came from beyond our solar system. But the sun wasn’t content to let it leave in peace, or in one piece. Comet 2I/Borisov, an Eiffel Tower-sized clod of dust...
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These are, safe to say, uncertain times. The confirmed global cases of illness from coronavirus are approaching 1.5 million, and reported deaths are well into the six figures, but what...
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Four German students who were invited to shelter with a New Zealand family during a nationwide lockdown say they’ve been having lots of fun sharing meals, playing soccer and trying...
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Continuous integration and delivery platform CircleCI today announced that it secured a $100 million tranche, which will be used to bolster the development of the company’s product suite, according to...
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A controversial anti-malaria drug will be given to Australian Covid-19 patients in hospitals outside of clinical trials, the federal government confirmed, after the therapeutic goods registration requirements for two drugs...
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What would the sky look like if you could stand on the surface of a pulsar? — Kathryn S., Seattle A blur, mostly. A pulsar is a fast-spinning neutron star:...
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An hour’s drive south of San Francisco, a stand of several hundred poplars grows in a Y-shape — a rather unusual sight wedged between two baseball fields. The trees were...
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Elena Aprile was in a race against time. Her Xenon experiment, one of the world’s largest and most expensive investigations into the nature of dark matter, was coming together beneath...
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The mayor of one Cameroon city says wearing a mask will be mandatory to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus that has already infected 658 people across the country and nine others have died. ...
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People around the world, trapped in their homes amid a health crisis, have something to look forward to this week when the full moon appears as a supermoon for the second of three times this year and in its most spectacular form. A...
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