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Learn about a Roman-era shipwreck discovered off the coast of Sicily by a fisherman who found hundreds of ancient jars while diving.
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Mars has plenty of water, and almost all of it is in the wrong place. The poles are rich in ice, the equator, where you would actually want to land, has none within reach.
Time on a large professional telescope is one of the scarcest resources in science. Astronomers wait months for a few hours, and every one of those hours is a running argument with the weather, the…
Rocket Lab plans to start launching even more frequently and flexibly, thanks to a new portable spaceport system called "GHOST," which packages everything into standard shipping containers.
Social cohesion is the glue that holds society together. Now, those bonds are breaking, and polarization has been growing for years.
A single leaf may look like a simple patch of green, but to the microscopic life that inhabits it, it is a vast landscape divided into different worlds.
A quasar is a supermassive black hole in the act of feeding, and it’s so bright that it drowns out the galaxy it sits in.