Bluish-white water ice clouds hang above the Tharsis volcanoes on MarsNASA/JPL/MSSS Mars was empty before we came. That’s not to…
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A magnet could help us divert asteroids away from EarthTimothyOLeary/Getty Images We could deflect potentially hazardous asteroids by using an…
Sir Anthony Leggett was a giant in the field of quantum physicsUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/L. Brian Stauffer In my first…
Luca Parmitano during a spacewalk on 9 July 2013ESA/NASA When the water reached my face, it spread over my nose…
The number of data centres is rapidly increasingJIM LO SCALZO/EPA/Shutterstock Data centres built to power AIs produce so much heat…
Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Red MarsTerese Loeb Kreuzer/Alamy 2026 marks the dawn of a momentous era: humankind taking our…
A view from NASA’s Perseverance Mars roverNASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS I’m happy to think of people reading Red Mars in 2026. Its story…
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The main part of the new set-up for cooling and trapping rubidium atomsTomasz Kawalec CC BY-SA 4.0 A better, more…
Artist’s reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis, an ape that lived around 17 million years agoMauricio Antón/Professor Hesham Sallam A newly discovered…