Intense videos show Hurricane Sally hit the Gulf Coast hard
Hurricane Sally — one of a record number of storms that have formed so far in the Atlantic this year — is pummeling parts of the Gulf Coast. After intensifying...
Two droplets coalesced in a microscopic video. The impact could be huge for the future of sustainable living.
Kazi Fazle Rabbi and Dr. Xiao Yan are researchers in the Energy Transport Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as this year's winners of the...
These fossils show our brains evolved slower than our society
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern...
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Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. Hola pandemic pals,...
We’re about to run out of hurricane names in 2020
The number of Atlantic storms this year has been exceptional. So exceptional that the World Meteorological Organization is about to run out of names for these churning cyclones. During each...
New AI tool predicts how medical treatments affect life spans of mice
A new AI system that predicts the health spans of mice could help develop life-extension interventions for humans, according to the tool’s inventors. The system analyzes established measures of frailty...
Incredibly detailed videos open a hatch into a magical microscopic word we often forget exists
Every year, Nikon holds its Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition and this year is no different. From small plankton and shapes forming on soap to hydra’s and tardigrades, there...
European Space Agency awards $153 million contract for its first planetary defense mission – TechCrunch
The European Space Agency (ESA) is doing its part to help protect the Earth from any errant asteroids that may threaten terrestrial life, awarding a €129.4 million ($153 million) contract...
Dynetics has built a full-scale test version of its lunar human lander for NASA – TechCrunch
One of the three companies chosen by NASA to create a Human Landing System (HLS) for NASA has completed a key step by building a full-scale test article of its...
Our understanding of dark matter just became even more warped — literally
Two eyes are better than one The massive galaxy cluster MACSJ 1206, seen by Hubble and the VLT. Seen within the cluster are distant background galaxies (seen as smeared arcs)....