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Cosmology
NASA's Cassini spacecraft circled Saturn for 13 years and never saw a shape at the south pole, but when the planet's slow seasons tilted…
A perfect ten-sided storm has materialized at Saturn's south pole—and it vanished the moment scientists stopped looking.
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For 57 years, the Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot dish sat sunk into a Puerto Rican valley listening to the sky, and in December 2020…
The collapse of an iconic radio telescope offered a rare glimpse into how scientific infrastructure fails, and what we lose when it does.
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Pluto’s atmosphere has probably persisted in some form for millions of years, but observations suggest its pressure fell 16% between…
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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 1925, 24-year-old Radcliffe graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that stars consist overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft circled Saturn for 13 years and never saw a shape at the south pole, but when the planet's slow seasons tilted…
Every living eukaryote appears to descend from a single ancestral lineage in which an archaeal-related cell formed a permanent partnership…
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
In 1925, 24-year-old Radcliffe graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that stars consist overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium
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