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Science
A polar bear’s fur looks white, but it contains no white pigment
Nature's most ingenious optical illusion hides in plain sight across the Arctic ice, revealing how evolution engineers invisibility through structure rather than pigment.
Stellar Chemistry
The gold in your wedding ring might an origin far more violent than you think
Astronomers have long puzzled over where the universe's gold originates—now evidence points to the catastrophic collision of two neutron stars, an explosion so luminous it drowns out hundreds of millions of suns.
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Industry news, exploration, and the engineering of getting humans and machines beyond Earth.
The ISS toilet costs $23 million and separates urine into a centrifuge that recycles 98% of it back into drinking water
On Saturn's moon Titan, molecules that chemistry says should never mix are mixing
In March 2025, astronomers confirmed 128 new moons around Saturn in a single day, nearly doubling its count to 274
Japan is quietly building a 100-satellite sovereign eye in the sky, and the sensor that makes it actually useful is coming from a Finnish…
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
In the Taurus-Littrow valley, where Apollo 17 landed in 1972, researchers confirmed in December 2025 that boulders tumbling downslope…
The Voyager Golden Record carries a small sample of uranium on its cover, placed there so whoever finds it can measure the decay and work…
Mars lost its magnetic field, and then the solar wind stripped its atmosphere, and then its oceans evaporated
How did a moon smaller than Mars end up with rivers, rainfall and lakes without a single drop of water in any of them?
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
The Voyager Golden Record carries a small sample of uranium on its cover, placed there so whoever finds it can measure the decay and work…
A polar bear’s fur looks white, but it contains no white pigment
How does a rodent that weighs 20 kilos and builds mud walls raise a valley's water table by nearly a metre and store more carbon in the wet…
A black bear's heart drops from roughly 55 beats per minute to as few as 8 during hibernation, yet it emerges in spring with almost no…
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