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🌌 Introduction Mars has always captured our imagination — a cold, red world that might one day become humanity’s second home. In 2025, researchers and private companies are taking real …
🪐 Life on Mars: The Science of Terraforming the Red Planet Read More
🌌 Introduction The Moon has always fascinated humanity, but in 2025, it’s becoming more than a celestial wonder — it’s an economic opportunity. With new technology and private investments, lunar …
The Moon Economy: How Lunar Mining Could Power Future Space Missions Read More
🌌 Introduction For decades, space exploration was dominated by government agencies like NASA and Roscosmos. But in 2025, a new chapter has begun — one driven by innovation, competition, and …
The New Space Race: Private Companies Exploring Beyond Earth Read More
Even the microwave oven in your kitchen is not immune to bacteria. The irradiating environment within a microwave oven might seem inhospitable to microbes. But swabs from microwave ovens in …
More than 100 bacteria species can flourish in microwave ovens Read More
Contrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most massive and luminous globular star cluster, a new study finds. …
The nearest midsized black hole might instead be a horde of lightweights Read More
It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere — but you wouldn’t know it from the thermostat. On August 26, a remote stretch of the coastline in Western Australia experienced the highest …
Summer-like heat is scorching the Southern Hemisphere — in winter Read More
Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it …
Mega El Niños triggered the world’s worst mass extinction Read More
When the virus that causes mpox jumped onto the international stage in 2022, countries around the world, including the United States, turned to vaccines targeting the closely related smallpox virus …
Even as vaccines for mpox reach Africa, questions remain about the virus Read More
For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in the Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the ambipolar electric field, was predicted to exist decades ago but …
Scientists find a long-sought electric field in Earth’s atmosphere Read More
Among the more than 500 species of bacteria that thrive in the human mouth, one seems to play by its own rules. Rather than reproducing by splitting itself in two, …
Some bacteria in your mouth can divide into as many as 14 cells at once Read More