The Cost of ‘Hero Mode’: How NASA Broke a $4.6M Antenna
NASA just spent $4.6 million fixing a mistake born out of sheer desperation. Or perhaps pride. Hard to tell with the Deep Space Network.
The...
Dust Might Heat the Sun’s Corona
It makes no sense. The sun's surface burns at 9,932 Fahrenheit. The corona? Millions of degrees hotter. We've known this for years. It breaks...
Humans To Titan: The Race Between Us and Our Silicon Doubles
April 1961. Yuri Gagarin went up. Space opened its door.
Since then we have been climbing back to the moon. Maybe Mars. Maybe further.
But wait.
What...
Supercharged Fibre Just Got The Green Light In Europe
Bread is changing. Or at least, the bread on shelves across Europe could change within a year.
Thanks to a new "supercharged" fibre, bakers...
The Core of Darkness
Scientists finally pin it down. There’s a single driver behind our worst impulses.
They used to call it the "Dark Triad." Psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianness. Three...
Egypt’s Pyramids Shake It Off
Giza hasn’t collapsed.
Not once.
Not in 4,500 years.
Which is strange, really. Because Egypt sits right on top of seismic faults. Earthquakes happen there. Big ones....
Bavi Slams Pacific Islands
Wind screaming. Rain lashing. That’s Monday. Super typhoon Bavi doesn’t just arrive on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands; it pummels them. Hard.
The US...
We Are Unprepared for the Heat
The numbers don't lie. June’s heatwave was the hottest Europe has ever recorded. It hit less than a month after May broke its own...
When Mom Just Walks Away
White-faced capuchin monkeys usually handle the forest's shifts just fine. Plants, bugs, they are adapted to change. But then comes a year like 2015....
Portable ACs are broken. Until they’re fixed.
Portable air conditioners usually suck.
That’s not a critique. It’s physics.
And nobody tells you this at the checkout.
I didn’t know it when I bought mine....
